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"Whatever it is in your life that you're most afraid to do, that causes you the most amount of anxiety — usually, that's the exact thing that you need to be doing." - Mark Manson Why can't you create an algorithmic process for happiness? How does freedom require limitation? Why are the things you're willing to sacrifice more important than the things you want? How can you set goals that are intrinsic, not extrinsic? Why are people so distrustful and tribal right now? Go Ahead, Help Yourself! Mark Manson didn't plan to be a best-selling author. He certainly didn't plan to be in the self-development space. But when you're a thoughtful voice on the internet, people start asking you for advice. Three books and 13 million copies later, it's clear that it's pretty good advice. Mark's best-sellers, “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” and “Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope” provide a researched, grounded approach to what he calls "the crisis of self-actualization." Unlike other self-help books, Mark doesn't offer systems or a quick fix. The path he lays out is a straightforward, common-sense evaluation of your life, based on scientific evidence and drawing on philosophy from Eastern and Western traditions. It's like talking about life with an old friend — an old friend who's up-to-date on all the latest research. The Struggle is Real One of the foundational arguments of Mark's book is that happiness isn't just given. Meaning is earned through trial and tribulation. As Mark puts it, "There's not a single thing that you're proud of that didn't require some degree of struggle or sacrifice. It's a one-to-one relationship." This may seem counterintuitive — that to be happy, you have to go through something difficult — but Mark says if we compare it to things outside of our emotional lives, it makes sense. "To have a healthy body, you have to constantly put it through stress and strain. To have a healthy career, you have to consistently surmount and overcome challenges. So it's like in every other aspect of life. We just understand it as obvious that you need struggle to progress." Giving Up Another seemingly counterintuitive message that Mark preaches is that to gain, you need to sacrifice. This can be true with freedom, as he found out himself after traveling the world. "One of the things I discovered is, I believe that freedom requires limitation. Freedom is not meaningful unless there's some sort of limitation that you put on yourself." In fact, these sacrifices are key to finding your way. Mark says it's not the things that we want that make us unique. We're all working towards essentially the same stuff: a nice house, a good car, a loving relationship, security, a few material knickknacks. What makes us different from the next person is the type of things we're willing to sacrifice. "Find problems you enjoy having. That's essentially what happiness is: finding the struggle that enlivens you, makes you excited to get up in the morning, that feels meaningful." Key takeaways: Any exceptional behavior will be polarizing. To make a difference, you're going to make some people mad. Find the problems you enjoy having. We all want the same things; what makes us different is what we're willing to put up with along the way. Go towards what you're afraid of. Big changes make us nervous, but sometimes big changes are exactly what we need. Links and Resources The Game Changing Attorney Podcast Michael Mogill Facebook Michael Mogill Twitter Michael Mogill Instagram Michael Mogill LinkedIn Crisp Website Crisp Facebook Crisp Twitter Crisp Instagram Crisp LinkedIn Mark Manson Website Mark Manson Books Mark Manson Blog Mark Manson Facebook Mark Manson YouTube

When it comes to issues associated with what, why, and how to "come out of her," the prophecies concerning the "Mark of the Beast" are hardly a new topic on this show. And YET, something is clearly different now. As Mark outlines it this week, the "Easy Round" is SEEING it, and recognizing that a misnamed "vaccine passport," required in an increasingly obvious police state in order for the peons to be allowed to "buy or sell," is pretty hard to overlook. But the Easy Round is over. It's the Death Round that is going to be a whole lot tougher. And it's IMMINENT. "The Mark of the Beast: It's a matter of Life, or Death, or worse."

Mark A. Smith (CRO of Webware.io) is one of the wisest (and funniest) writers on LinkedIn. In today's episode we get into the virtue of patience in sales. Plus, what are you learning from your colleagues on the sales team? You need to be careful about who you choose as a sales role model. Then we talk about how to develop trust with buyers. Before digging into the nature of sales and stress. As Mark observed, "Giving your whole company a week off due to burnout is awesome. Not burning out your employees in the first place is awesomer." All of this and much more in this fun conversation. Connect with Andy: LinkedIn | https://bit.ly/Andy-LinkedIn Sponsored by: ringDNA | Transform your sales team into a high-performing revenue engine | www.ringDNA.com Blueboard | A rewarding alternative to President's Club | https://podcast.blueboard.com Qualified | The #1 conversational sales & marketing platform for Salesforce | www.Qualified.com Explore the ringDNA Podcast Universe: Sales Enablement Podcast | https://bit.ly/SEP-LP Selling with Purpose Podcast | https://bit.ly/SWP-LP RevOps Podcast | https://bit.ly/RP-LP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to another episode with Mark Schaefer. In the last episode, we talked about Mark's book Marketing Rebellion and the need for human-centered marketing. Today, we will continue the discussion of Mark's book by discussing four strategies for human-centered marketing: constant human truths, values-based marketing, customers as our marketers, and honesty and consistency. We'll also discuss tectonic shifts and fractures in the status quo.     Focus on Constant Human Truths     Many companies Mark consults with feel overwhelmed. There are so many options and things to do. He often tries to emphasize the constant human truths, which he discusses in his book. These truths are that people want to be loved, belong, be acknowledged, and be respected.   Mark said we are too focused on technology. We need to put these human truths first, and then we can think about how technology can help us provide for these needs. “I'm not anti-technology. [But] I'm anti-technology when it creates barriers with our customers. When we do things like spam them or send them robocalls, that will just tarnish our brand,” Mark said.   Being acknowledged is one of these important truths. In Mark's book, he discusses statistics that say 50% of young people said, “It's important for me to be acknowledged by my friends on social media,” but 60% said, “It's important to be acknowledged by my favorite brands.” It is more important for them to be acknowledged by their favorite brands than their friends. There's a longing to be acknowledged.    The pandemic has made a lot of these needs more prevalent. People are feeling more lonely, isolated, and depressed. Mark believes companies have a role to play in this. Customers are telling us there's a way to engage with them: give them a place where they belong.     Consider Values-Based Marketing     There is a lot of research from companies like Deloitte, Accenture, and McKinsey that shows loyalty has been declining over the last 20 years. 87% of our customers are “shop around” customers. Research by Harvard shows that almost all of our traditional marketing activities are not building loyalty except for one: demonstrating shared meaning or shared values.   A well-known example of this is Nike and Colin Kaepernick. Some people think Kaepernick is a patriot and a hero and others think he's not. Nike made a deal to do a line of clothes with him. When they did that, Nike's value went down by about $4 billion in one day and people were burning their merchandise in the streets. Two weeks later, however, Nike's valuation was even higher than it was before.   Mark had a friend who said he was so mad he was never going to buy from Nike again. Mark told him, “They don't care.” Nike realized that in order to earn their audience's trust, they have to show what they stand for.    Nike also knew that Adidas was trying to make a deal with Kaepernick. They had both looked at research to find out what their customers believe, and they were looking for ways to align themselves with those beliefs. It was a race for shared values.   This is a very, very effective way to create loyalty, but it's not for everybody and it's not necessary for every company. We don't all have to express our political or other views. If we think about all the products we've purchased in the last two weeks, how many of them do we know where they stand on political or other issues? For me, it's none of them. Values-based marketing can work very well, but it isn't necessary for every brand and many brands do well without it.      Embrace Customers as Our Marketers     In the past, we were the markers; we viewed ourselves as the marketing team and the marketing agency, and we decided how to market our brand. There is a fundamental shift happening as our customers become our primary marketers. As we discussed in the last episode with Mark, two-thirds of our marketing is occurring without us.   As Mark found this research for his book, he was overwhelmed by how wrong we were in the past. He thought, “I don't know what it means to be a marketer anymore,” because the customers have control now.   Instead of trying to hold on to this control, we should embrace it and earn our way into being part of the dialogue. We shouldn't bother, annoy, or interrupt our customers. We should let them speak and then join the narrative.   Many people are in love with content marketing, but the content has no value unless it's seen and shared. Mark said, “The value is in transmission. It's getting that story, getting that content, to move in that two-thirds. That's where the marketing is occurring.”     Be Honest and Consistent     A long time ago, Mark realized he can't depend on social media, Facebook's algorithms, Google, or SEO. There are thousands of other digital marketing consultants out there, so he's never going to have a number one ranking on Google or beat out the richest competitors. He can only depend on himself.   Mark creates content that is so honest, it's unmissable. People know from his content that he doesn't have an agenda. He's just trying to find the truth; he's on the journey with them through the good, the bad, the success, and the failure. He's consistent through it all.   We often think that success will happen overnight, but most often success comes from consistently showing up.    Mark shared the example of a band called the Black Keys. Before the band was big enough to play arenas and sell out Madison Square Garden in 15 minutes, Mark had the chance to talk to them when they were playing shows for about 1,000-2,000 people. Mark asked the drummer, “What was the catalytic point that took you to the top?” The drummer said, “There wasn't one. We've been touring for seven years, we've made seven albums, and every year we do a little bit better.”   Hard, consistent work will eventually lead us to where we want to be. Mark said, “There is no overnight success. You just [have] to keep on working, working, working [with] patience. Consistency is more important than genius.”   Gain Momentum through Fractures in the Status Quo   On this show, we talk a lot about tectonic shifts or changes in the business landscape we can leverage to help us grow. Mark talks about a similar idea that he refers to as fractures in the status quo. Like tectonic shifts, these fractures can lead to great success.   Fractures in the status quo create new and unmet or underserved customer needs and provide opportunities when we can meet them with our core competencies. When our initiative meets that fracture, we can burst through it with all our might and speed to create winning momentum.   Bill Gates was able to leverage one of these fractures. He had access to early computer prototypes as a teenager, allowing him to learn how to code—his core competency. When the fracture came, personal computers, Gates leveraged that competency to build software and find success.   We need to be aware of our own core competencies and the fractures or shifts happening in the world. Then we can leverage them and gain momentum.   Mark's Manifesto   While Mark was writing Marketing Rebellion, he reached about the halfway point and realized there was no way people would be able to remember everything he was covering. Mark challenged himself to write a 10-point summary of the first half of the book. This summary became the Manifesto for Human-Centered Marketing. A hand-drawn copy of this manifest is available here. We should also create manifestos to communicate our core mission in a way that will inspire our audience and help them remember what we're about.    Key Takeaways   Thank you so much Mark for sharing your stories and insights with us today. Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode:   People want to be loved, belong, be acknowledged, and be respected. We can help fill those needs for our customers by acknowledging them and creating a place where they belong. Almost all of our traditional marketing activities are not building loyalty except for one: demonstrating shared meaning or shared values. Customers are in control of our marketing now. Instead of trying to hold on to this control, we should embrace it and earn our way into being part of the dialogue. Consistency is more important than genius. Being authentic and consistent with our customers will help us gain big success little by little. Fractures in the status quo provide great opportunities for us to gain momentum. We need to be aware of these fractures.   Connect with Mark   To learn more about or connect with Mark:  Connect on LinkedIn  Visit his website at BusinessesGrow.com  Check out his book Marketing Rebellion   Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer?   Please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content:   Download the free Passion Marketing ebook at PassionMarketing.com. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast. How can we shift our marketing to be more human-centered? Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers. Need help with your digital monetization strategy? Visit MonetizationPartners.com to schedule a free consultation.   Read at: https://monetizationnation.com/blog/4-strategies-for-human-centered-marketing/ 

DO YOU WANT THE RIGHT ANSWERS IN LIFE? IT ALL STARTS WITH ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. Are you ready for this ? MY GUEST HAS SOLD 500 MILLION BOOKS! Yep… 500,000,000 Mark is a legend and an icon In this interview he and his incredible wife Crystal are going to teach you how to ask the right questions and HOW to ASK for what you want! Best known as the co-author of the CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL book series, Mark is a highly sought-after keynote speaker who has helped untold numbers of people achieve massive success through his teachings and wisdom. As an author, he has written 59 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS. Mark is a prolific audio and video producer who has also spoken to 6,000 audiences and continues to share his compelling knowledge and wisdom along with his soul-mate and wife, Crystal Dwyer Hansen, to gatherings throughout the world. It was an honor to share time with Mark and Crystal in this latest episode. We cover how simple but also how difficult it is for people to ASK FOR HELP in their lives. Mark and Crystal explore this topic in great detail in their latest book, “Ask!: The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny,” which I read in two days and HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Our talk also touches upon the power of asking GOD for help and asking your SUBCONSCIOUS to help you solve whatever challenges you're facing. These are the types of things that EVERY ONE OF YOU can do to improve your life. Mark and Crystal also get into the ROADBLOCKS that keep us from asking questions that can help us lead RICHER lives. UNDERSTAND THIS! We all have the ability to ask questions. As Mark and Crystal reveal, it's the QUALITY of the questions we ask ourselves and how they relate to our feelings and emotions that determine the types of answers we get.  

Mark Dixon is the founder & CEO of International Workplace Group (IWG), formerly known as Regus, the world's largest provider of flexible workspace solutions. They have over 3,300 locations and 15,000 team members in 120 countries around the world. Mark has a unique and diverse background leading up to his current role. He actually dropped out of school at the age of 16 to start a business delivering sandwiches by bicycle. He has been a logger, a miner, a barman, an investor, and a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman--all before founding IWG in 1989. He always knew he wanted to go into business, but he also realized early on that he needed experience and training and that's definitely what he got throughout every job he had. He learned other languages, he tried multiple different roles, he soaked up what he could from the people he worked with--and all of it led him to his current position. As Mark shares, “I've worked with some fantastic people, either within the companies or advisors or people I know. And, you know, in those days--and still today--I'm still learning today, you're sort of like a sponge. You just got to be whoever you're speaking to, whatever you're doing, you try, you know, you're learning lessons. And COVID, you know, this whole crisis, I've been through many, many crises over the period of time that I've been in business, this is a huge one. And you've had to reinvent very quickly, and sort of apply, you know, all those 45 years of experiences to what you know now. And it's very hard to learn all that, you know, you're not going to get a lot of it with an MBA, it's gonna come with experience.” Is there still a place for in-person work? This past year with the pandemic really showed most businesses that they could continue to get things done even during shutdowns, thanks to technology. They realized that not only could the business keep going, but a lot of employees were happier because they weren't commuting every day, they could work in comfortable clothing, and they could spend more time with family. Now that we've all experienced this for over a year, a lot of companies are exploring how they can allow employees to have more flexible work options. A big topic of conversation lately is will the office go away completely. Will most companies continue with remote only working? Mark and I agree that while companies will give employees more flexibility, the office is not going away anytime soon and there is still value in having people come to work in-person. But most likely it will be more of a hybrid format, where people can work from home at times and come into the office at times as well. While it is possible to keep everyone remote and get work done, as Mark points out bringing people together, at least some of the time is key, otherwise you just create a bunch of digital nomads. This can be dangerous because it makes it easy to lose the company culture. The key is having a convenient physical office (or offices) that people want to come to, at least from time to time. This is where collaboration, social interactions, networking, etc… can happen. It is also important to have an agenda to accomplish while people are there so you don't have people sitting around staring at their screen by themselves. “You're going in there to do creative stuff, you're going in there for your boss to thank you and hand you a, you know, a bottle of wine or something for doing a great job in front of everyone else. So you can't do that over the internet. So you've got to try and have a sense of belonging, and a feeling of purpose. And you can do a lot of it when people are decentralized, but you can't do all of it. It's a really important factor. So the companies of the future will have a number of hubs around the country, they'll bring people together.” The benefits of hybrid work Hybrid work is about making work convenient for employees and allowing them to work from wherever is the most productive for them each day. Some people may not have space to work from home and working from a Starbucks or Panera can be difficult with all of the noise and distractions. Some people live 3 hours away from work and hate their commute. Others may not have the discipline to work at home efficiently. So it's all about providing different options for all of the different needs. Giving people options helps the morale of the employees, they feel like they have control over how and when they work, they are happier because they are less stressed, and they are more productive. This way of work also helps companies have less fixed costs. Mark says he has seen a number of companies take the money they have saved from having people work from home and they have re-invested that money into HR programs that help them get to know employees better. Sometimes leaders feel like they know their people because they all sit in the same building and they see each other every day, but that's not necessarily the case. “You know, it wasn't the office that was the magic ingredient here. It was the people themselves. And it's about companies focusing on people as people. They had brilliant talents that you didn't know about because you hired them, you asked them but you didn't ask them again and again.” Mark's advice for leaders who want to make hybrid work a reality for their employees The first thing Mark believes leaders should do is take time to research--there are so many materials and resources out there for companies that want to start hybrid work. Look into what other companies are doing and what has worked and what hasn't. After you've done your research it is crucial that you talk to your people to find out what they want. Survey your people to see how many of them want to be able to work from home at times, and how much time they want to work from home. How do they feel about working from a local office part of the time and working from home the rest of the time? Their feedback can help you develop a strategy. For most companies, leaders who don't give employees the option to work from home at times will most likely lose a lot of good people. Can you fail at hybrid work? Some leaders might worry about failing at implementing hybrid work, but don't worry Mark says while you may not get the right productivity out of it, you can't really fail. If you get it wrong, he says, it's because you haven't thought enough about your people. Staying connected with your people is so important, especially when you are working in a hybrid setting. It's easy for employees to feel lost or disconnected, so it's up to the leaders to make sure that doesn't happen. Call people on their birthday, start meetings off with a casual conversation, send out a weekly or monthly update email. Think about the things you do in your office right now to stay connected and then just figure out how to do that when you are all more spread out. Now more than ever we need to take a step back to define what it means to be a leader and what great leadership looks like. But this isn't easy to do. In fact, man business leaders struggle with this. You cannot become and build what you don't define. In the PDF you will get a framework you can follow and also see how some of the world's top CEOs define leadership. Click here to get the PDF. 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In 2002 Mark England moved to Thailand to further his dream of becoming a professional fighter – to train Muay Thai (Thai boxing) with the sport's very best. Three years and two knee surgeries later, that dream was over. After spiraling into self doubt, pity and being an overall miserable person – going as far as forgetting how to smile for an entire year – Mark decided it was time for a major change.It started with devouring as many personal development books as he could find, then experimenting with raw food diets, detoxes and Paleo lifestyles. Then came Tony Robbins seminars, Byron Katie workshops, yoga retreats, ancient frog medicines, tribal ceremonies, you name it – things as different from his suburban Virginian upbringing as possible.Mark knew that whatever it was that led to his debilitating bout of depression and self doubt must also affect other people. He was determined to find out the techniques that can make us into better, more effective human beings.Shortly after establishing himself as a life coach and presenter in Asia and Europe, Mark discovered the answer. Every conversation and coaching session about fear, trauma, self-loathing and self-doubt shared one common trait: the way in which people speak about them. The words we use.Mark put this hypothesis to the test and four years and thousands of empowered clients and event attendees later, Procabulary was born.The mission of this company is to dramatically reduce the amount of unnecessary stress and drama in the world and to create more powerful, happy people as a result. Procabulary offers courses, coaching and life events worldwide.As Mark says, “With Procabulary, the conversation – with ourselves and each other – has officially been changed.”ProcabularyMark England InstagramEnlifted ProgramBuilding Men YouTubeBuilding Men FacebookBuilding Men InstagramBuilding Men WebsiteBuildingmencoach@gmail.comCheck out our sponsors Finish The Race – Home of the official Building Men gearParent Brew Coffee – use this link to get 15% off your purchasetype BUILDINGMEN at checkout for 15% off your purchasehttps://gmrevolution.com/

Summary by Peyton SmithSeg:1- Americanuck Radio was very proud to welcome back Mr. Mark Friesen, PPC party candidate.Today, Mark dropped in to discuss the Canada day/Dominion day rally event in Ottawa over the weekend With Chris Sky.Mark explains the theme of the event, and how the organization committee decided to exclude Chris from the event.About an hour into the event, Chris showed up and demanded a mic. Mark relates the progression of events which brought about a kerfuffle over Chris going past his allotted time....and having his mic cut. In the course of said kerfuffle, Chris went after Max Bernier and Randy Hillier. With all do respect to the amazing work that Chris has done toward freedom and liberty in Canada, he should've handled himself with much more grace.As Mark points out, the movement isn't about one person. Chris is still welcome, and a vital part of the movement, but he must check his ego at the door. Humbleness and humility go a long way.It is a waste of time to infight over this, as it only plays into the hands of the freedom snatching Liberal gangsters in Ottawa.-----------------(AUDIO) Mike rolls some sound from one Nurse Kristen, who was involved with the event. She gives her take about the event drama surrounding Chris Sky. Her nurse group was supposed to speak at the event, but they were robbed of their time because of his monopolization of what was a strict time schedule.------------------Enjoy this excellent segment 1!Seg:2- Peter Serefine, host of Mojo 5-0's "Liberty Lighthouse," comes by to discuss his new book titled "So Simple Even A Politician Can Understand."Inspiration for the book came about after a discussion with an entrepreneur named Cliff Oxford.As Peter explains, very simple ideas are contained within the book, which are common sense for Congress to take up.Mike and Peter continue a very intriguing discussion about various chapters of this book, which should be required reading for all of the DC cabal. Enjoy this conversation IN FULL, and get Peter's book here:https://www.liberty-lighthouse.com/------------------Mike gets into the current situation concerning the U.S.- Canada border.More messing about.------------------(AUDIO) Trudeau dribbles about when and under what circumstances he'll open the border.The world class clown lathers it on thick.-------------------Chris Sky lashes out on twitter against Mark Friesen as well as Mike, while this episode of Americanuck Radio was live. Not a good look at all from Chris.Not at all.------------------Strap in for a very thrilling segment 2!

Episode 37: Other Uses of ASIM ChecklistA discussion about uses of the ASIM Checklist beyond active shooter events.Bill Godfrey:Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. My name is Bill Godfrey, your host of the podcast. We're happy to have you back with us. Today, we have three of the instructors with us to talk about the uses of the ASIM checklist beyond just Active Shooter. We have, as many of you know, the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist which lays out this process. But just because it's titled Active Shooter doesn't mean that that's the only thing it's usable for. We're going to talk a little bit about that today. I'd like to introduce you to the three instructors that are with us. We have Terrence Weems from the law enforcement side. Terrence, good to have you back in the house.Terrance Weems:Thanks for having me.Bill Godfrey:Absolutely. We have, of course, Adam Pendley also from the law enforcement side. Many of you know Adam. Adam, good to have you back.Adam Pendley:Happy to be here.Bill Godfrey:Of course, the inimitable Mark Rhame from the fire EMS side like myself. Mark, good to see you.Mark Rhame:Thank you, Bill.Bill Godfrey:Alright. Again, as we talked about in the opening, we titled it The Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist for a lot of reasons, but it's usable for more than just Active Shooter events. Adam, why don't you open us up and start talking about it in a little bit generically and then we'll roll from there?Adam Pendley:Sure. One of the things about the ASIM checklist is a validated process of building an incident management from the ground up. So many of us in law enforcement, fire and EMS over the years have trained on the incident command system. We go to the standardized FEMA classes, but oftentimes, we see the final org chart. We see this managing an incident from the top down model. You see all these positions filled out and what you find is that doesn't work in the field. One of the good things about the ASIM checklist process is we build a response from the first arriving unit that then builds from there. Additional units arrive, they start becoming teams, and then group supervisors arrive, and then incident command arrives, and you have branch directors.As an incident unfolds, more elements are added from the ground up. Here's the point, is that the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist can be used for other types of rapid response on the law enforcement side and especially any sort of rapid response that involves an integrated response with fire EMS. As we're arriving to a violent incident, it could be a robbery in progress. It could be some other type of crime of violence. The idea of having the initial contact teams stabilize the scene, having a tactical group supervisor come in and start managing that inner perimeter and managing those follow on resources, teaming up shoulder to shoulder with fire and EMS, and then having the higher command come in and be part of the command post and all the elements that we talk about in the ASIM checklist, the staging manager and intel and PIO all fit in, in the same way in almost any type of rapid response from law enforcement, fire and EMS.Bill Godfrey:Things like mass shooting, I think that's a no brainer.Adam Pendley:Right.Bill Godfrey:Violent attacks, whether it's with an edged weapon or something else. Vehicle through a crowd?Adam Pendley:Sure. Absolutely. Because anything that either has the potential for multiple injuries or has multiple injuries, you're going to follow the same process. I think it's important to follow that process even on those different types of incidents an all hazards approach because if you only pull out the concepts of Active Shooter Incident Management, just for Active Shooter, you're going to be rusty. Fortunately, we see a lot of these across the country, but we don't see them all the time in each of our jurisdictions. Right? You have to find other opportunities to keep those skills strong.Bill Godfrey:Almost like a generic response process, Adam, is that what you're thinking? Something along that for a subset group of calls on the law enforcement side, this should be the default response?Adam Pendley:Sure. Kind of like your standard response model where you know that if you have something that's either in progress or that has just occurred, that is a violent scene with multiple injuries...Bill Godfrey:Like a drive by or something like that?Adam Pendley:Sure. A drive by in any sort of... Even if it's a domestic violence in progress or something that might involve a hostage barricade situation. There's a lot of examples of this that we could talk about where there's opportunities to really engage each element of the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist.Bill Godfrey:Interesting. I'd like to revisit this idea of that of setting up a default response process, maybe that's a good idea for another topic. Let's go around. Mark, what are the things that are on your mind? What pops into your head about other uses of the ASIM checklist process and where it might be valuable?Mark Rhame:Well, the first thing I think of is that nine times out of 10, the boots on the ground are going to do an incredible job. Every single time, they go out there and they get the job done. The weakest link, as far as I'm concerned, what I've seen in my career is generally the command staff is where it fails and they fall apart. It's because a lot of the things we're exposed to, those big events, maybe once in a lifetime, you get involved in something like that. Maybe you trained on something, maybe you read about it, but you don't practice it enough. You don't get involved in some of those environments. When we talk about using the ASIM checklist for other environments, it really does put us all in the same stage or platform where when we have these big events, we're ready to perform.As I see us responding to more and more of these domestic disputes, this civil unrest, these environments where we're having what looks like some type of domestic terrorism against our communities, against what we consider the norms, I think it really behooves us as public safety responders to step up and utilize a process like ASIM to respond to those events. Again, as I said before, generally I see the command side of the response to these big events as the weakest link. Again, those law enforcement officers that go in there to that threat, they're going to do their job. The fire EMS people, give them good direction and equipment. They're going to do a great job out there and they're going to perform to the standard we expect, but if our incident command side of that picture doesn't get their act together and do it right, it's going to screw up the whole environment. Again, utilizing the ASIM checklist for more than just an Active Shooter incident will make us better in the whole, as a public service or a public response to these types of environments.Bill Godfrey:You're talking almost like what Adam was saying about having a default response process, but it's not just a law enforcement response process, it's an integrated one. It runs across the disciplines. I don't know that I've ever seen or heard of anybody else doing that before. I definitely think that's one worth coming back and revisiting in a future podcast. Terrance, what jumps out at you as lessons learned or places where you think this process could be helpful in your walk of life?Terrance Weems:Yeah. Actually, one of the things that my agency we try and do with everything, anything outside of a normal day-to-day event, we utilize NIMS for that. But in looking at the ASIM model, one of the things that comes to mind immediately is a multi-vehicle crash with a ton of injuries and some deaths where the road, whether it'd be an interstate or county road, is shut down. Now, you have opportunity to put this into effect, actually building, as we said before, from the ground up. That first person arrives, sizes up the incident. They know what they have, and at the same time, they don't know what they have. All they see is a scattered mess.Bill Godfrey:You mean like one of these big, massive pile ups that we hear about on the news from time to time?Terrance Weems:Right. Few years ago, we had one on I-94 up near the Michigan State line, a number of vehicles, semis, and all of that. But what took this to the next level, it was like 12 degrees.Bill Godfrey:Ouch.Terrance Weems:One thing that we forget about is cellphones generally don't work very well and the battery life dies when it's extremely cold, plus you have all of the vehicles out there. Your batteries on your portables are dying and things like that. What this does is this gives us that opportunity to build from the ground up now, putting into place, everything that we need. I think that's outstanding. Even with the reunification and getting RTFs out and everything that we teach, it is able to be utilized even in a situation like that. You wouldn't necessarily think about it in that manner, but it's very helpful because again, using it as a general response to just about everything that you're doing, and if you're doing it all the time, you're practicing it all the time. When something huge happens, you're able to follow through.Bill Godfrey:It's really fascinating. I wouldn't have thought about using that process in terms of one of those big, massive pileups, but you're right. There's a lot of overlap there. There's a lot of things that fit and help. Alright. What else? Adam, what else is on your list?Adam Pendley:Terrance brings up the idea of RTFs and the integrated response and it really strikes me that you don't want to wait for a violent active shooter type event to get and teach fire, EMS and police to move together, to carry equipment together, to find the safe path in and out. Even at the crash site, fire, EMS, they know their job. Like Mark mentioned, they're going to do a great job, but we've already assessed the scene when we first arrive. We know where the injuries are, and so us working together as law enforcement to work with EMS and work together as an RTF to move into that scene is really important. But another great opportunity to do that in an even less stressful environment is any of our communities that have special events. We all have carnivals and fairs and parades and sporting events and arena events in our communities. In all my years of working special events, every time you have a drunk person that's down, that is going to be treated by EMS, you're going to need a law enforcement officer there. Right?Bill Godfrey:That's true.Adam Pendley:Every time law enforcement responds to a fight, they're going to probably need medical there at some point. Right from the start in our planned events, we can schedule RTFs to work together. You have the rescue task force that's already assigned, and they're at various locations throughout the event. When an incident occurs, they can learn to move together. They can meet each other. They can learn about each other's equipment and about each other's processes. That way, God forbid three days from now, we have an active shooter event at a warehouse, we've already learned to do that. It's staging those officers and fire and EMS that are working together as an RTF, maybe they've done this before, and maybe they move into the scene more effectively.Bill Godfrey:That's a really interesting idea of deploying it at a planned events or special events. What are some of the ones where you've seen... You guys have the NFL games up by you and I can recall you mentioning that you've deployed that on that before. What are some of the other types of examples you've got?Adam Pendley:Actually, just this past week, we had the opportunity to... It was announced that our city would be the location of a big college party crowd sort of thing, and we expected an additional 10 or 20,000 folks to be down at our beach area. Again, we anticipate there to be crowded streets and lots of drinking and possibly fighting and things along those lines. One of the...Bill Godfrey:They do seem to go hand in hand.Adam Pendley:Yeah, absolutely. Part of our incident action plan was teaming up our bike officers with some bike or some mobile med unit teams on the fireside. We called them on the incident action plan, we called them RTFs. We had them strategically stationed throughout the beaches' area, so they could provide that rapid response and work together. In that environment, it provides immediate security to the medical, but it also provides medical for the opportunity, again, to work together. We meet each other in the less stressful event so it's easier to put that together during the active shooter.Bill Godfrey:It's interesting. It also provides an opportunity, I assume to get everybody used to the terminology, the idea of the teamwork and who talks to who and who reports to whom and whatnot, all those things?Adam Pendley:Absolutely. Yes.Bill Godfrey:Okay. Cool. What about civil unrest? That's been in the news a lot recently. It has a very apparent rise or what at least would seem like a rise in mass shootings, lot of generalized violence we're hearing about on a fairly regular basis, a lot of civil unrest. Is there a role there, do you think?Terrance Weems:Oh, for sure. Generally, if you look at it, depending on what stage you go to, you'll have a number of, let's say protests to those civil unrest situations. A lot of them are pre-planned. However, those that arise out in the middle of nowhere, you're going to have one or two officers responding initially. Now, that gives you that opportunity to put this plan in place right then, so you have that opportunity because although it's not an active shooter event, it is escalating. You're going into an unknown, but this event, generally when you get into the civil unrest, it generally doesn't... The fire don't go out rather quickly, but it continues to escalate until it blows up.Unfortunately, we have seen it happen last year and even a few this year, but putting that plan in place, it helps. Just like Adam was saying earlier, if we do it on those small events, you're building those relationships. I think that's the most important thing to get the different disciplines together, trusting and believing that they're going to be able to support one another.Bill Godfrey:That's really interesting. You know what? I see the fit on the civil unrest that comes up unexpectedly. On the planned ones, Adam, and I know you've had your hand in a lot of these from the management side and having to put together incident action plans for the planned events. When it comes to the idea of demonstrations or potential civil unrest, things like that for a planned event, when you're putting together an IEP, I assume you would distinguish in the structure the difference between the function of a contact team that would be deployed if things go sideways versus... I don't know what you guys call them, forgive me, because law enforcement obviously is not my background, but the guys that are working in the line.Adam Pendley:Field force.Bill Godfrey:The field force. If you were pre-planning the event, how would you mix that ASIM org chart, if you will, that Active Shooter Incident Management checklist structure with the field force? Have you done that before? Have you got any ideas off the top of your head?Adam Pendley:Oh, sure. A field force is just another team structure underneath the law enforcement branch. You would have a field force group with multiple teams underneath there, very similar to the perimeter group. In the law enforcement branch, under the ASIM checklist, they're responsible for the tactical group supervisor and the contact teams that are underneath there. In a civil unrest sort of way, you may have a forward deployed teams that monitor various protest locations or counter protest locations and they're your initial contact teams. If they need more resources, they would call that up through tactical who would get approval from law enforcement branch and the incident commander and those additional resources could be deployed. It still falls under that same structure that we build. Essentially, we're still building it from the ground up.Because even for a planned event, you're going to look at those locations that you know you're going to have events at and you're assigning the right number of resources to each event with those additional resources available. One of the things that I know Mark can probably attest to is, is that you know that the fire department is going to get calls during that time. We always talk about clock. You have to beat the clock, right? If they're going to respond in a rapid manner, they don't want to have to leave the station and go stand by somewhere. It's better for us to think about, "Why don't we pair law enforcement right from the start?"Mark Rhame:One of the sidebar issue outside of the medical response using RTFs, is we talk more and more of fire as a weapon. When we think about the civil unrest issues, these planned protests, why don't we even talk about tagging up law enforcement with fire in a strike team type of an environment that is similar to a rescue task force concept, where we take a fire engine with a couple of law enforcement officers who are ready to respond to those fires that pop up in these civil unrest environments? For fire, we tend to sit there in stage and we wait and we wait and we wait until they clear out that whole area.But what if we built out those teams ahead of time, not only on the EMS side for our rescue task force, but also the strike teams for that fire as a weapon environment that we can get in there and quickly start using maybe deck guns, deluge guns or something that are more unstaffed where we just dump a ton of water on that particular fire, and then get out of that environment and leave law enforcement to continue to work on that social unrest environment.Bill Godfrey:Instead of a rescue task force, a firefighting task force?Mark Rhame:Exactly. But again, we're going to include law enforcement as part of that component. Instead of just fire coming in there and going to do their job by suppressing that fire, we engage a law enforcement component with that fire engine or engines, and they respond in there as a team. Again, those law enforcement officers, as we do with RTFs, don't leave their wingmen. They stay with those people throughout and protect them. That gives fire more confidence that law enforcement has got our back. We can do our job. We can concentrate on that suppression activities and don't have to worry so much about those protestors that are there in the background.Adam Pendley:Yeah. We actually had a lot of success with that in my area during 2020. That would be part of the assignments. We would assign a law enforcement element to each of the firehouses that was in the area that we knew would be affected. That was their job. They stayed at the fire station. Now, the only bad news is we introduce law enforcement officers to recliners but...Bill Godfrey:You're just jealous.Mark Rhame:Well, we just give them applications. They can come over.Adam Pendley:Right. But all joking aside, whenever they were toned out to any event, because remember, we've talked about this many times as well. The other stuff that's happening in your city is still happening. You're still going to have responses to other types of medical emergencies, are responsible... If you get dispatched to a dumpster fire that is in the affected area, was it set on fire on purpose because of the civil unrest? Pretty much all of those calls for service out of that station have to have a law enforcement element along with them.Bill Godfrey:That's really interesting. I think that in itself probably is a whole nother podcast to talk about that topic and talk about that concept.Mark Rhame:Bill, you can take it a step further. When we talk about our response to hurricanes, tornadoes or whatever it happens to be, when we know that somewhere along the line, there's going to be some looting. There's going to be some kind of a crime environment when we're trying to go out there and check these buildings to see if the occupants are still there, if there's anyone that's injured in this collapsed structure. If we engage law enforcement with fire and EMS with these rescue teams, then we can take care of all of this stuff at the exact same time. They can go out start doing their windshield surveys, checking these structures. Law enforcement's making sure that no crimes are taking place, involving their individuals in regard to get witness statements, if there were crimes involved when they're going through. We can expand this thing out continuously when we talk about public safety response, incorporating fire, EMS and law enforcement in teams.Bill Godfrey:It's funny as you described that, it almost sounds like we're talking about an all hazards integrated response.Mark Rhame:Yes.Adam Pendley:Yes, exactly.Bill Godfrey:Interesting. Adam, you mentioned one a little earlier that I'd like to jump back to, and that was hostage barricade you kind of threw out. Can you talk a little bit about that? Can you and Terrence talk a little bit about some of the challenges that come up in those types of incidents that would warrant that integrated response?Adam Pendley:Sure. I think that type of incident mirrors the ASIM checklist process very closely because you get that initial dispatch of an active scene of some sort. If a hostage barricade started as an argument and are armed argument of some sort, it turns into a hostage barricade, that initial arriving units are going to essentially form a contact team, give a size of report, engage if they're able to or contain if they're required to and call for additional resources. I think if you have an additional contact team that's going to cover the rear of the building, other contact teams or an apprehension team that's responsible if the suspect gives up or tries to escape. You have multiple teams down range, and now you have a lot of resources already at the crisis site. Just like it's very true in the active shooter environment, it's important for somebody to stay put and now become that fifth man or that tactical group supervisor, the tactical person to now manage how everyone else...Because the worst thing that you can do at a hostage barricade situation is to have everyone show up at the front door, right? Because you're going to potentially aggravate the situation. You're going to have too many people trying to do one task. Again, having that fifth man or tactical manage the responses and set a staging area becomes critically important. Then, all the follow-on resources after that, you're going to have fire EMS come to your staging location in case the hostage barricade goes poorly. You're going to have negotiators. You're going to have intel. You're going to have a lot of additional follow-on resources as you also continue to build this response.You have that tactical a little further down range. Hopefully, you can get a triage or a fire EMS officer to work side by side with tactical, again, to make those decisions about, "Hey, if the hostage taker goes active, we're going to do this. If they release hostages, we're going to need this." There's a lot of close integration down range. Then, the integrated response to the command post also becomes critically important.Terrance Weems:Extremely important. One of the things that you want to make sure that we're doing is communicating the need, making sure that we have the resources that we need in each one of those situations because just like you said, once you have that hostage taker, who knows where it's going to go from that point? Having all of your ducks in a row, even before you need them just means that that experience is going to be that much better and most likely have a positive outcome.Bill Godfrey:It's a fascinating topical area that frankly, Mark, I don't know about you, but it's not one I feel like we had a whole lot of training with for those particular types of events. It's fascinating to hear you guys describe that. The one other area that I want to talk about before we leave this topic is the idea of area command. While it's a component of the Active Shooter Incident Management curriculum, in the intermediate and the advanced class when we talk about complex coordinated attacks and how to manage those, one of the things that we always say in class is that, "Hey, this area command tool can be used for more than just this thing."When you've got complex investigations that are crossing jurisdictions, you've got a manhunt. As we sit here today, we've had yet another tragedy with a police officer being shot. There's an aggressive manhunt on for the suspect not too far from where we are. Talk a little bit about that idea of area command as a tool that can help us more effectively manage these events and how we can use it, what we can use it for, and the benefit of it.Adam Pendley:Well, from the law enforcement perspective, I think you already hit on that. We talk about a lot in active shooter events that you have the minimum of a three scene, or you have the crisis site itself, the transportation the suspect you used, and then also where they live or where they came from, but that expands even further. We've seen incidents where we know a single suspect has committed a violent act in more than one place. It may not necessarily even just be an active shooter type event that they have committed acts in multiple places or like you mentioned, this manhunt situation that is, by its very nature, going to cross multiple jurisdictions. We can all look back at the after-action reporting on the Boston marathon. We know that we had a very serious crisis site at the scene of the run that involved bombings, that required multiple patients being treated and ultimately where it started, they ultimately have the jurisdictional authority because that's where the original crime was committed.But then, you had another officer shot in a different jurisdiction. You had the suspect. You shoot out with the suspect and yet another jurisdiction and ultimately the capture of the final suspect in yet another jurisdiction. An area command, a concept can become very important to manage those critical resources. That's what we talk about all the time. You have these multiple sites. You only have so many SWAT teams. You only have so many armored vehicles. You only have so many specialized canine units and such. You can't just chase your tail every time a new location pops up, that everything heads that way. You have to be very deliberate about managing those critical resources. I think there's opportunities to practice that on a more regular basis.Mark Rhame:Bill, I've set up several area commands and it's not directly related to what we do in regard to ASIM, but it does explain how an area command does function. One of the examples I try to give in class is that we had a tornado touchdown, multiple places on the east side of our county. The typical dispatch was full compliment, which was in that particular time, was [inaudible 00:29:18] companies, a rescue, a battalion chief, and an EMS captain to each one of the sites. We ended up having four sites within a couple square miles of each other. The problem with that as a shift commander is that, that one event basically stripped down my entire command staff from my county. Right then and there, it was gone. I said, "I can't do that. There's no way I can do that. I have to control this environment as a shift commander."I stood up an area command and reduce the response to each one of those events down to one engine company, one rescue, and then held a battalion chief with me at the area command posts. Now, I know this doesn't follow the practice we utilize in the ASIM, but it does make sense when you talk about controlling your response, your resources to those particular events. I stood up a lot of area commands in regard to brush fires. Because again, if you sent a full compliment brush fire with a structural exposure to multiple sites after a lightning storm the night before, you're going to strip down your resources very, very quickly. Area command has a vital role in our normal day-to-day responses when we have multiple events popping up in a geographical area and standing up that area command gives you that advantage of control and the resources that you want to leave for that next event that might be right around the corner.Terrance Weems:Right. Not just controlling the assets that you have, but actually obtaining assets that you need. There used to be a time when I was growing up where you did things in your own community, whether good or bad, you didn't necessarily venture out. Now, in regards to violent crime and that sort of thing, people are crossing borders. Borders mean absolutely nothing. Within an hour, I have two states, Illinois and Michigan that I can get to. People traverse right down through, up and back. One of the things that I recognize is the need for that area command because when you need equipment, you need bodies, you need those assets, one police department, especially if you're in a small rural area, you're not going to have the ability to get what you need outside of an area command.Bill Godfrey:I think it's a fascinating topic. To me, one of the key points that I think we always try to hit home on when we talk about complex coordinated attack, which is the idea of three or more attackers attacking a single site, two or more sites under simultaneous attack or an act of terrorism that overwhelms a local jurisdiction, that's the definition we use. The reason we use that is because it's from the responders' point of view, what does this call sound like and how should we respond? That's where I'm going with this. We've had numerous incidents across the country where an attacker was mobile and attacked several different sites, often crossing jurisdictions. You've got those 911 calls coming in. You got the first hit over here and that's a car accident with a couple of people shot and then three or four minutes later, a mile down the road, mile and a half, you've got some more people that are shot.You got another shooting coming in and then four minutes later, it crosses into another jurisdiction. We had one of these that just occurred a few weeks ago where a suspect killed several of his relatives in a home, went to the local police station and began attacking that with a semi-automatic rifle. Then, after shooting up the police station and trying to kill a bunch of people there, broke contact. A few minutes later, began shooting up a park with a bunch of kids that was right next to a school. Imagine, you're the 911 operator working that particular day, and you're getting these calls, that's going to sound like simultaneous attacks. That's going to sound like a complex coordinated attack. At the very least, even if it is the same attacker and they just went mobile, you got three complex crime scenes and close range to each other. As Mark said, that's going to strip your resources if you do the same thing for every one of them, and you got to get control of that.Adam Pendley:Absolutely. I think it's again, part of the process you learned in the ASIM incident management process is that you don't send everyone to the first site. Right? You have to control... We have to have the organizational discipline to certainly get what you need to address the initial act of threat, but then manage everything else from there. That's why the fifth man concept is so important, tactical, and we stress it over and over again, the importance of staging, so you are not over committing too many resources to that first site.If you practice that on a multitude of different types of incident responses, both police fire, and those responses that we do together, and that's one of the things that's been my fear when we talk about complex coordinated attack is so many agencies across the country have done a fantastic job preparing for an active shooter event, that the first time they have something that sounds like that, they send everyone. Everyone from the patrolmen to the chief and the kitchen sink all pour into that first site. Without following this control of resources managed response, you have too much at the first site and you're not prepared for that second, third, fourth site, whether it's a mobile suspect who's on a spree or whether it's truly a complex coordinated attack. Either way, if you over commit to the first scene and don't follow a process, you're going to be left flat-footed.Terrance Weems:Right.Bill Godfrey:I think that's a fabulous wrap up and a great place to end this. Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed the podcast. If you have not already subscribed to the podcast, please click subscribe wherever you consume your podcast materials. If you have any questions for us or suggestions for future podcast topics that you would like the instructors or any of our guests that we bring in from time to time to talk about, please send that to us at info@c3pathways.com. That email again is info@c3pathways.com. Until next time, stay safe.

In this episode, Glenn Pasch and Mark Beal, Professor at Rutgers School of Communication, discuss this influential group. As Mark states, “This generation will truly transform the world.”   They discuss how businesses need to attract and retain this talent; what they are looking for in companies and careers. Also they discuss how companies need to market to them; what they look for and where they consume content.   A fascinating discussion based on Mark's years of study on this issue and working with this generation every day in his classroom.   Not an episode you want to miss if you are expecting to remain in business in the next decade.   Don't forget to subscribe. Please share.   About Mark Beal   Before authoring his most recent book, Engaging Gen Z, Mark Beal served as a public relations practitioner and marketer for more than 25 years, developing and executing public relations campaigns for category leading companies and brands around such major sports and entertainment platforms as the Olympic Games, Super Bowl, World Series, NCAA March Madness, US Open Tennis and The Rolling Stones.   He collaborates daily with Gen Z as a full-time professor of practice in public relations in the Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. Mark's ongoing primary research of Gen Z has led to keynote speeches with the American Marketing Association, Association of National Advertisers as well as corporations, brands, sports leagues conferences and agencies.   Mark's previous book, Decoding Gen Z: 101 Lessons Generation Z Will Teach Corporate America, Marketers & Media, captured the attention of media, marketers and employers nationwide as the oldest Gen Zers join the workforce and the entire Gen Z cohort becomes the primary focus of corporations and brands.   Mark features his interviews with Gen Z on his YouTube series, Mark Beal: Gen Z From A To Z. To learn more, visit, https://www.markbealspeaks.com/.   About Glenn Pasch:    "Everyone finds themselves in charge at some point in their lives. Yet many of us lack the skills to generate consistent results. My goal is to help you learn the skills to adapt and grow in your personal and business life. I want to help you generate success.”   Glenn Pasch is CEO of PCG Digital, an Inc 5000 agency that specializes in helping businesses create and deliver a modern retail experience to get customers raving, recommending & returning for more, then leverage it with digital marketing to connect with consumers of all ages and increase sales opportunities. He is author of 2 books including "The Power of Connected Marketing" and has spoken and educated audiences throughout the US and internationally.       FOLLOW ALONG:   Subscribe to my channel for free offers, tips and resources! YouTube: https://bit.ly/inchargenowwhat​  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/CEOPCGDigital/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlennPasch​ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennpasch/​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gpasch/​ Blog: https://pcgdigital.com/blog Personal Website http://glennpasch.com/​ Company website: https://pcgdigital.com/

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Mark Nation is a global technology expert who has spent more than two decades laser-focused on inspiring people and organizations to work with more vision, purpose, and passion in all they do. Mark, author of “Made for Amazing,” is founder & CEO of Nation Leadership, which advises executives at companies large and small how to unleash their full creative potential. As Mark told host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart back in September 2017, each of us has a voice — an internal song — that we need to nurture and share with the world. Sing along with Mark and Dean this week during a Best of Monday Morning Radio encore . Photo: Mark Nation, “Made for Amazing”Originally Posted: September 18, 2017Best of Monday Morning Radio Update: June 14, 2021Monday Morning Run Time: 36:09

#S2E19 Shelf Impactors™ 'Interview with Chris Do - Founder of The Futur' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings In this fantastic episode we have another great guest on the pod - the great Chris Do. As well as being the owner of thousands of cool caps, Chris is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and also the founder of The Futur — an extremely successful online education platform with the big hairy audacious goal and mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. As Mark wasn't able to make the podcast recording Lisa went solo into this one and had an incredible conversation with Chris. They get into who Chris Do is, what motivates and drives his ambition. Chris shares some of his stories of how he came to set up the futur, how he overcame his relative shyness to become a hugely successful speaker, spokesperson and mentor for the design community and heading up a team of awesome creative thinkers. KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. WHO CHRIS DO IS 2. FINDING YOUR TRIBE 3. BEING AN INTROVERT WHEN PEOPLE ASSUME YOUR AN EXTROVERT --------------------------------- Chris Do: Website - www.thefutur.com Email - hello@thefutur.com --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers his father's legacy may not be as heroic as it seems. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChpl-tmHTAG-dW3srDQVVjA   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrianandmuhammad   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mos_tv16   https://www.instagram.com/just_adrian__   Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/amreviews3. Send us a message through this link to get featured on the show: https://anchor.fm/am-reviews/message

Don't have 15 minutes? I don't believe you!  Today we give our 15 minutes on the new Amazon Prime series, Invincible. Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers his father's legacy may not be as heroic as it seems.     #Comics #Amazon #Invincible #ShortPodcast #Podcast #Review ________________________________________________ Site: http://SimplisticReviews.net TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@simplisticreviews iTunes: https://goo.gl/orhsR4 Spotify: https://goo.gl/pcBg5V Twitter: https://twitter.com/simpletweeters Facebook: http://facebook.com/SimplisticReviews  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simplygramming

In the latest episode,  chats to  CEO,  and Cantium's , Head of Workplace Wellbeing Services. They discuss staff wellbeing and how Cantium is striving to make it part of the everyday conversation in the workplace. Ross explains the resources and training that has been put in place to enable management and staff to support one another during a stressful period. Much of the conversation revolves around educating people to be aware of their stress levels and that many things affect our 'stress containers' capacity. And when accepting that they are stressed, they need to be confident there is no stigma attached when they seek help. With one in four people experiencing mental health issues, it is an important topic that all business leaders need to address. As Mark rightly points out, "if you're waiting for legislation to force you to address the topic, then you're missing the point". Leaders must accept that stress-related issues exist in all businesses, and proper management of mental health issues is critical, not only because it is the right thing to do, but effective management will ultimately result in greater productivity.     

Today we're talking *CUT TO TITLE SCREEN* Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers his father's legacy may not be as heroic as it seems. Ryan, James, & Chad discuss a show they all watched because James told them to and then subsequently liked, Invincible, on Amazon Prime. You can support the hosts on patreon.com/HBOBOIZ Twitter: @HBOBOIZPodcast / @JamesWatchesMen

Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers his father's legacy may not be as heroic as it seems.

Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers his father's legacy may not be as heroic as it seems.

Seventeen-year-old Mark Grayson is just like every guy his age, except that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. As Mark develops powers of his own, he discovers his father's legacy may not be as heroic as it seems.

This week, we're excited to have the opportunity to welcome Mike Thorn to the show to celebrate the release of his latest novel, Shelter for the Damned, which is out now through JournalStone Publishing! Looking for a secluded place to hang out and smoke cigarettes, teenagers Mark, Adam, and Scott stumble across a mysterious shack in a suburban field. The friends had been through this area countless times, but this is the first time they remember seeing the shack. Adam and Scott aren't all that impressed, but the first time Mark enters The Shack, it feels like the perfect escape and he already feels the pull of The Shacks energy. Over time, Mark realizes there is an intelligence residing in The Shack, one that expects things from Mark in exchange for the refuge it provides from his life. As Mark grows more dependent on The Shack, his life starts changing in ways he could've never imagined. Shelter for the Damned is loaded with nightmarish scenes and if the idea of a dark coming-of-age story meeting Kathe Koja's The Cipher intrigues you, this is definitely the book for you. Throughout the course of the episode, we talked about Shelter for the Damned, his influences, coming of age narratives, toxic masculinity, suburban horror, Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, possession films and so much more. We had a lot of fun recording this episode and hanging out with Mike. We hope you guys enjoy the conversation as much as we did!

How do you tap into your own courage reserves to do something extraordinary? What are the elements required to push you outside of your comfort zone? And what practices need to be put in place to reveal passion and purpose? This and more with Mark Pattison! Mark is a former NFL Player, philanthropist, podcaster, successful entrepreneur, and currently an executive at Sports Illustrated while he seeks to become the 1st NFL player to ever climb the Seven Summits.  In this week's Curious Minds with Dr. L episode, Mark Pattison shares lessons that he learned from playing in the NFL, his own journey towards climbing the seven summits, and the elements that he believes build a true leader. As Mark heads to his last leg of his seven summit adventure, you get to absorb lots of motivational insight in this fun episode! www.markpattison.com www.drlarapence.com

News and commentary for Tuesday, 16 March, 2021. Please listen to and share this one. When one of the world's foremost vaccine developers and experts comes right out and tells the world just how deadly the current worldwide mass vaccination campaign really IS, we had better pay attention. As Mark puts it, what is being done is worse than merely treating masses of humand beings as live guinea pigs. They're being used as mass human bio-reactors for the biggest bioweapon development effort in history.

Mark Daoust is the Founder, President, and CEO of Quiet Light, a brokerage and business advisory firm that helps online entrepreneurs achieve amazing exits. Since starting Quiet Light in 2007, Mark and his team of experienced advisors have worked with hundreds of brands that sell on Amazon. Before Quiet Light, Mark founded the online publication Site-Reference.com and grew its subscriber base to 220,000 members. Currently, he is a well-known presenter and guest author, as well as the co-host of the Quiet Light Podcast. In this episode… According to Mark Daoust, there are a number of factors that have fueled the increased interest in private label businesses on Amazon—from press coverage of companies like 101 Commerce and Thrasio, to the current COVID-19 pandemic. While brokerages such as Mark's company, Quiet Light, have been helping FBA brand owners sell their businesses for some time, these recent events have skyrocketed them into the limelight. So, what should private label sellers expect when working with a brokerage to sell their businesses? For starters, the broker will want to know the ins and outs of the business, including the defensibility of its revenue, the type of market it's in, and how prepared it is for a transition. As Mark says, he looks for details about each unique seller and brand in order to determine when it will be most valuable for them to sell their business. Mark Daoust, the Founder, President, and CEO of Quiet Light, joins James Thomson in this episode of the Buy Box Experts podcast to explain what private label brand owners can expect from working with a brokerage to sell their businesses. Mark talks about the advantages of working with a broker versus selling directly to an aggregator, why some sellers decide to postpone selling their brands, and what differentiates his brokerage from other players in the market. Stay tuned.

Thementorstudio.com markyuzuik.com https://www.facebook.com/MarkYuzuik/ https://www.facebook.com/Hypnotistmark https://www.instagram.com/markyuzuik/ linkedin.com/in/markyuzuik Mark Yuzuik is most widely known as a Stage Hypnotist performing all over the country. However, there is much more to him than most of his fans realize. Mark has been wowing audiences with his hypnotic stage shows since 1991. In the last 25+ years, he has performed in over 10,000 events to over 8 million people from all over the world from Australia to Canada. Mark has been not only successful at fairs and Theme parks (6 flags since 1991) but also corporate events such as, Toshiba, Petco, South West Container, Mercedes, Toyota and many more, Mark has the ability to positively and powerfully impact the quality of life for everyone involved. Mark Yuzuik is a true picture of what is possible when someone truly commits themselves to something more than where they are. Mark was raised in a family where love was abundant. As Mark grew up, his thirst for creating wealth was only exceeded by his passion for helping other people. Mark also conducts multi-day seminars for Personal Growth with Hypnosis. Mark surrounds himself with the types of people that are willing to hold him accountable to the standards he needs to live by in order to maximize his talents. He teaches his students that simply having the knowledge is not enough. Mark's love of people and his passion for making a difference will shine through in his words and in his presence on stage. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Who's thirsty for Spartan blood? Grab your togas and skip the carbs, because we're traveling back to 480 B.C. when anything less than a six pack of abs is an affront to the gods. As Mark says, "Good bye horse, hello corpses!" We're talking 300 with writer and speaker Zeke Smith! (Disclosure on Netflix, Survivor)Follow Zeke on Twitter & Instagram: @zekerchiefFollow us on Twitter and Instagram: @TwoOldQueensFollow Mark on Letterbox: @markrennieEmail us: TwoOldQueens@gmail.comWe've got a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TwoOldQueensWE'VE GOT MERCH! CAN YOU IMAGINE? Click on this link! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/two-old-queens?ref_id=12950Or go to TeePublic.com and search for Two Old Queens!Music by Danny CohenArtwork by Connie ShinTechnical Support by Mike Rennie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My guest for this episode is someone who can not only talk about what it is to personally face down a life-threatening crisis, but who has worked at the epicentre of multiple crises that have affected us all.Mark, (now Lord) Sedwill, was Cabinet Secretary from 2018 until last year. He was Britain’s most senior civil servant and, to quote from the musical Hamilton, ‘He is the man who was in the room where it happened.’ He has worked at the right hand of two Prime Ministers as they navigated crises including Brexit, the Salisbury poisonings and of course the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. But these were not the first intense dramas in our guest’s life of public service. In previous jobs he’s been threatened at gunpoint by Saddam Hussein’s henchmen and whilst serving as deputy high commissioner in Pakistan, he had a bomb planted under his seat.Mark Sedwill is the embodiment of that calm, unflappable public servant that is uniquely British and characteristically understated.Mark’s Crisis Cures:1. Pizza would be the first. One of the things you have to do is keep people going. Often in a crisis it’s the simplicity of a pizza. I like a Diavalo myself!2. Listening – Remember you have two ears and one mouth and there’s a reason for that. Listening actively. Encourage the quieter voices and don’t jump to conclusions. You often need to go slower in order to go faster.3. Communication – In any crisis, communication isn’t just explaining what you’re doing – it’s part of managing the crisis. It has to be central to what you’re doing.Links:Halo Trust: https://www.halotrust.org/Show Notes:This podcast was an absolute masterclass in crisis management. Although the stage Mark, Lord Sedwill has operated on is national, at times even global – the lessons still apply I think for anyone trying to navigate a proper problem.Mark, of course, is a man who found himself dealing with two of the biggest government crises of modern times – Brexit and most recently the pandemic. But it was his previous roles across government, the military, UN and the Intelligence Service, (not that he would reveal a thing about that, naturally!) that provided the muscle memory for him to step up when those big tests came in at number 10.His approach in essence was powerful in its simplicity. In crisis, you need to communicate more, not less – because communication is at the core of crisis management. You need to make sure everyone understands their job, including you – don’t try and play every position on the pitch. It’s important to understand that staying calm is contagious because how you behave and the words you use, will impact how others behave. And remember – when you’re talking or shouting, you’re not learning and sometimes the quietest person in the room has the most telling point to make.Mark was also clear that in crisis you must leave room for error and that includes your own. His admission that his analytical approach can sometimes mean he lacks empathy was revealing. As Mark says, ‘you won’t get everything right, but when those mistakes happen – recognise them, make sure that you’ve absorbed them, then move on.’This is an episode packed with useful takeaways from a man whose career has been dedicated to public service at the sharp end.Stream/Buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bmSome Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk

Mark Podolsky of The Land Geek is on a mission to free everyone from solo economic dependency – trading hours for dollars – the most extreme form of active income. Mark shares the details of his method to developing a passive income stream through investment in distressed land in a way that minimizes capital at risk and creates monthly cashflow. The goal is working when you want to, not because you have to. As Mark says, true freedom in life is working when you want, where you want, and with whom you want. Ultimately, Mark’s own story and the way he serves others through The Land Geek is all about creating happiness.

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.John Mark IdentityMark may not be John Mark. John was a common name in the Jewish world, and Mark a common name in the Roman world. And having a Greco-Roman name along with a Semitic name was not uncommon.Even if John Mark is not the writer of Mark, you can still derive some benefit from our study.Some identify him with the young man who fled naked (Mark 14:52), but this is unsure.He is associated with Peter, according to Papias (early 2nd C.).Acts 12:12Mid-40s ADPeter returns to John Mark’s house once released from prison.Prayer meeting. [Listen also to the Rhoda NT Character podcast]John Mark's family were people of means.Acts 12:25He is a missionary.And connected with Saul and (esp.) Barnabas.Acts 15:36-4149 AD.Paul felt young John Mark should not join them. Too much pressure? Untested or fragile? In some other unreliable? Not a good chemistry between Saul and John Mark?The brothers and sisters support Saul/Paul. This must have been hard for Barnabas, who had believed in Saul when no one else did—and for John Mark, too.Barnabas chooses to remain with Mark.Cyprus is the ancestral home of Barnabas. Jews had been scattered all over the broader Mediterranean world.Col 4:10c.60 AD.Mark was Barnabas’ cousin. Mark has reconnected with Paul, more than a decade after the time of Acts 15. People change in 10 years.Philemon 24Mark is numbered among other colleagues of Paul.He sends greetings to those in the Lycus Valley. He knew many people around the world, e.g. in Cyprus, Syria, and quite likely Egypt.2 Tim 4:9-1164-68 ADNot only have Saul and John Mark reconnected, but now the apostle appears to be fond of Mark.Note: As Paul was executed under Nero, who died in 68 AD, and most scholars date the composition of Mark to around the year 65, it is just possible that Paul had already read Mark.Paul appreciates Mark’s help, and he praises him.Further:Although Mark, like all four gospels, is anonymous, there is an early and strong tradition that Mark was the author. (See Papias.)Mark was close to Peter. Mark could be “The Gospel of Peter” (except that’s an apocryphal document from the late 2nd).Peter felt comfortable with Mark recording all his weaknesses.Mark was a leading figure in Egypt.Alexandria: Although missionary work there is not mentioned, it is unthinkable that the apostles would have skipped Egypt!The best candidate is Mark—not only because the Egyptians today insist so loudly that he is the founder of Egyptian Christianity, but because there are, as far as I know, no further claimants to the title.Mark was a great man, and his name is still highly popular (although I know of only one John Mark).The combination of writing and missionary experience is a good one.This is no armchair academic! The same can be said of Matthew (one of the 12), Luke (traveled with Paul), and John (an apostle).Matthew (Levi) – covered in another talk, so let's be brief… Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 and 10:3, and comes from Capernaum.His other name is Levi, son of Alpheus (Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27).Matthew collected taxes for Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. He may have been despised as a collaborator, but his willingness to follow Christ shows his heart was good.As a tax collector he would have been literate in both Aramaic and Greek, in addition to being good with numbers. We actually know more about Zacchaeus (Luke 19), another tax collector in the first century, than about Matthew.According to early tradition, Matthew died in Parthia, where he had ministered.His gospel was the most quoted among the earlier church fathers, just as people are still naming their baby boys after him worldwide.For more, check out Q&A 1551: Whatever Happened to the Apostles (after N.T. times)?Luke IdentityDoctorOnly Gentile writer of the NTWrote ¼ of the NT.Accompanied Paul—look for the “we passages” in Acts.He is mentioned three times in the NT, all three times in epistles penned by Paul in the 60s AD.Col 414This is the sole verse where we learn that Luke is a doctor.He was no street hawker, no quack. (If he lacked credentials or ability, it is doubtful attention would be drawn to his shabby vocation.)His polished Greek attests to a high level of his education.Philemon 242 Tim 411—accompanies Paul in his final days before execution.ThoughtsThe message of Christ attracted not only the disenfranchised and the educated, but also professionals and even the well-off. (But see 1 Cor 1:26.)There is a parallel in the lives of the two most influential apostles. Just as Mark accompanied Peter, Luke accompanied Paul. As Mark’s gospel reflects Peter’s life and character, so Luke’s 2-volume work provides us with an abundance of information about Paul, to which we would not otherwise have access.Like Matthew, Mark, and John, his name is highly popular.Matthew – from the HebrewMark is a Gentile name, but John is HebrewLuke is a Gentile name, from the Latin Lucius.By tradition, Luke was martyred in the reign of Nero.Nero orders his hand and arm to be cut off—which Luke miraculously reattaches! Then he is taken out to sea and beheaded, body and head placed into a bag and cast into the sea. His remains wash up on an unnamed island.His remains are moved to Constantinople in the 350s, later taken to Padua (Italy). In 1354 Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV removed his head from the reliquary and takes it to Prague. Luke's head and hand are placed on display in Rome in the 17th century. It was not uncommon for relics from a single body to show up in multiple cities.Source: Syriac / Coptic scholar Jacob Lollar, 2020.John – covered in another talk, so there’s no need to repeat the material here. John—Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Ephesus, Patmos.Probably buried in Ephesus.Further study: Q&A 1551: Whatever Happened to the Apostles (after N.T. times)? Also consider the N.T. Character Podcast on John (login required—but not if you listen to my podcast—sign up wherever you get your podcasts).

Queen of Shops Mary Portas has carved out a role as a retail fixer, style guru and successful broadcaster. She joins Richard and Nikki to discuss her extraordinary career and a new season of On Style, a four-part series on Radio 4 exploring what style means to us and the way we live today. Actor Adrian Dunbar grew up in Northern Ireland and moved to London as a young man to train as an actor in London. His career has included appearances in films My Left Foot and The Crying Game and television programmes such as Cracker and Ashes to Ashes, but most famously, since 2012 Adrian has played Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty. He tells us about his recent trip around his homeland for Adrian Dunbar’s Coastal Ireland. Ella Risbridger is the author of cookbook and memoir Midnight Chicken which chronicles how cooking helped her through an anxiety disorder, depression and bereavement. She shares her favourite recipes from the book and explains how she feels cooking saved her life. When listener Mark Davies’ uncle died last year, he was shocked to discover that he was a secret hoarder. As Mark cleared his house, he found every nook and cranny filled with both mundane and extraordinary objects from apple pips to World War II medals. And we have the Inheritance Tracks of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Producer: Laura Northedge Editor: Eleanor Garland

“The reaction to the trauma doesn’t necessarily stop with the people who experienced it.” Do you have symptoms that you can’t explain? For example, are you overly anxious for no obvious reason? Do you instinctively push people away or intentionally disassociate from difficult feelings in your body? Do you have irrational fears or thoughts about what could happen that don’t make logical sense?If so, there’s a chance you may be experiencing inherited trauma; that’s trauma, which started with your parents or your grandparents - not you. Generational trauma can impact our lives in profound ways. Fortunately, there is something you can do to transform the fears and soothe the feelings. There is a way to break the pattern so that the ancestral trauma stops with you. Mark Wolynn - author of It Didn’t Start With You and the director of The Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco has devoted his life to understanding and healing inherited family trauma. In this must-hear episode, Mark reveals how his work holds the potential to wildly transform your life as well as the life of your children and grandchildren [even if they’ve not yet been born]. “We don’t make the link that our anxiety, our depression, our shutdown is connected to our parents and our grandparents. We just think we’re wired this way.” The concept of inherited trauma is backed by science. As Mark explains in the episode, as we learn more about epigenetics, our clarity about the way trauma is passed on increases. Ancestral trauma is often behind the curtain. Logic can convince us that certain things are best left unsaid. But just because we don’t hear things doesn’t mean we can’t feel things. Mark’s work empowers people to dig deeper into their familial setting so they can understand the reactions and feelings locked in their body. As a result, his clients get to experience unimaginable feelings of freedom, closure, and clarity. You can get a taste of the potential that healing ancestral trauma could have for you when you tune into this episode. What is inherited trauma?What’s a healthy way to experience a healing event if you can’t tap back into the original trauma? How can you learn to be present with what is? How to differentiate between attachment and generational trauma. Why traumas affect fathering and mothering. The profound difference between forgiveness and understanding.What is inner child healing and why is it powerful healing work?How healing generational trauma impacts your children [and your children’s children].Changing how our genes express to protect our kids [and grandchildren]. Why Mark is passionate about this work [and how it healed his sight]. The significance of Mark crying into his mother’s clothes. And more… “We’ve got to tame our trauma responses so we can live a loving, open, compassionate, and gentle life.” How to contact Discover more details about Mark’s work at https://markwolynn.comLike Mark on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mark.wolynn.31Follow Mark on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markwolynn/We thrive on your feedback, so if you’ve enjoyed this show, please rate us and leave us a review. And don’t forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One day a man named John Mark sat down to write out his testimony. His writing materials were gathered around him: pen, ink, and sheets of papyrus—the writing paper of the time. The sheets would eventually be glued together to form a long strip that would eventually be rolled up into a scroll. As Mark bent to his work, he realized that he was writing about events some 35 years past, but they were as fresh in his mind as if it had been yesterday. It is highly doubtful that Mark had any idea that he was writing what would later become scripture. Thinking about Mark at his work, there are two troubling questions that arise. First, why did he wait so long to write the account down? Second, why did he write it at all? But first, we have to consider what it was that he was writing down. You probably have a copy of his manuscript in your home. It is in the Bible, the New Testament, and it is called The Gospel According to Mark. It is a shame they titled it that, because it obscures something very important. This is not merely the gospel according to Mark, it is the testimony of Mark to the events that had taken place during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. After the ascension of Jesus, and while the disciples waited at Jerusalem, Peter stood up in front of the little church (there were only 120 of them) and had this to say…

Mark 6:45-56 (NIV) As we began our series in the Gospel of Mark, we spoke about how this telling of the life of Jesus is designed to impress upon the hearer this question: "Do you see Jesus for who he really is?" It's full of stories where the people who should get it don't, and the people who shouldn't get it do get it. And so far the disciples have stayed clear of that question... but this whole thing with the loaves just gets them. Right before this passage, the Disciples are tired from a long season of ministry, having been sent out by Jesus to cast out demons and heal people. They couldn't eat because there were so many folks in need around them. Then Jesus asks them to give up their loaves and fish to feed more people. And here in this passage we find them on a boat with hard hearts, and landing on a shore with more people to heal and minister to. If we're not careful, we can miss the tension in these stories. Jews like the disciples were not just following a Messiah around because he performed miracles of healing and walked on water. They wanted freedom from sickness and pain, sure, but they wanted freedom from Rome and true return from exile, and all this caring for people was not what they had in mind. The next several chapters of Mark invite us to ask these questions of ourselves: Is my heart open to Jesus even when he defies my expectations? Am I willing to follow Jesus when it costs me? Do I really see him? ----------REFLECT---------- 1. What word or phrase stood out to you from this passage? 2. It's worth highlighting that the disciples mistook Jesus for something other than who he was. As Mark has penned this Gospel he hasn't wasted words. That's in there for a reason. He's drawing our attention to the idea that the disciples aren't seeing Jesus clearly. In what ways might you struggle to see Jesus clearly? 3. Imagine the fatigue that the disciples must have felt. A long season of ministry… a long night of fighting the wind… and then they land on yet another shore full of people crowding around Jesus. This commitment that Jesus had to care for these people was probably pretty stretching for the disciples. Is there something Jesus cares about and does now that stretches you? Ask him to help you have a soft heart. ----------GO DEEPER---------- Bible Project: Mark Overview >> Bible Project: The Gospel >> Bible Project: Gospel of the Kingdom >> ----------CONNECT---------- Find an InterVarsity Chapter >> Start an InterVarsity Chapter >> Learn More >> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailyread/message

Mark Lashier is the CEO of CPChem, a company that produces petrochemicals and plastics with 5,000 employees around the world. 50% of the company is owned by Chevron and 50% is owned by Phillips Petroleum. Mark has served in leadership roles at Chevron Phillips Chemical and Phillips Petroleum for three decades. With the challenges that we have all had to face over this past year, we have seen organizations and leaders make changes to adapt to our new way of work and life. Mark Lashier, CEO of CPChem, says that all of the events of 2020 reinforced some of the basic principles he has always believed in. Ever since Mark first became CEO in 2017 he has focused on trust, transparency, and simplicity. And while those values are important at any point in time, they were even more crucial throughout 2020. In order to carry on with business Mark knew that his employees and his customers had to trust him and each other, he knew he had to be open and transparent with everyone to keep them up to date, and he had to remove red tape and bureaucracy so people could do their jobs. Bringing trust, transparency, and simplicity to life  Any company can have great values or mission statements in place, but if they aren’t brought to life inside of the company the words don’t matter. Mark shares how trust, transparency, and simplicity live and breath inside of CPChem. He says that first of all it is important that all leaders inside of CPChem demonstrate these behaviors. So these become guidelines for hiring and promoting people to leadership positions. The other crucial component of bringing these values to life is giving employees permission to hold the leaders accountable for these behaviors. Mark says, “When you've got employees that maybe in the past were afraid to speak up for whatever reason, now they're not afraid to hold top leadership accountable for the things that we're saying. And I think that's an incredibly beautiful thing. And that is just self reinforcing. It makes us so much more effective in getting out messaging, we're trying to continue to move our culture to a better and better place.” The most important lesson Mark has learned from others Over the years Mark has received a lot of advice from leaders around him. Some of the key advice he has been given has been around leading with integrity and doing what you say you’re going to do. Also it has been around humility and leading in a way that puts the interests of others above your own. Mark shares that the most important lesson he has learned from others is “The more you advance in your career, the less it's about what you do. And it's more about what other people do, what you can help them do and the barriers you can remove to help them be successful and engaged.” The shift we are seeing in the CEO role In the past the way we viewed CEOs was almost as a celebrity--someone who is unapproachable, who sits up in an ivory tower and makes decisions. They usually spent most of their time traveling or in their office, so most employees didn’t see their CEO face to face even after working for the company for years. Now we are seeing a move away from this type of CEO and we are seeing CEOs spending a lot more time in front of employees, they are more approachable, some have open door policies, they are open and transparent about their lives and struggles. So why is this change happening? Mark believes it is largely due to technology and communication. He says there is so much more opportunity these days for CEOs to be visible than in the past. It is now possible for CEOs to create short videos to share with employees or to write monthly newsletters or to do virtual town hall meetings. That wasn’t possible in the past. As Mark shares, “there just was a lot more bureaucracy around in leadership in those days. And so it could behave more like a cult of personality, than anything else. And it just created an atmosphere where I think CEOs were more revered than respected. And they just didn't have the ability to reach out through all of that all those layers of protection to connect with people. And I don't think I would have thrived as a CEO, or perhaps even had the opportunity to be a CEO in that environment. But I certainly enjoy this environment much more.” The importance of leaders thinking beyond dollars and cents There used to be a mentality that the main purpose of a business and all of the leaders in it was to make as much money as possible. But now there is a realization that it’s not just about making a profit, it’s about positively impacting employees, customers, and communities. Mark says, “We like to think about ourselves as being sustainably profitable and sustainably growing. And there's a lot of dimensions to that you can't be sustainably profitable, or sustainably grow if you're in a community and you're abusing that community, either environmentally or through bad employment practices. Or if you're not taking care of employees providing a great work environment or career opportunities, they're going to go elsewhere, which will impair your ability to be sustainably profitable over time.” Yes, as an organization you have to be profitable, that is important. But if you want to be sustainably profitable, as Mark talks about, you have to make sure that you are not only taking care of your employees and customers, but also the community around you, the environment, and the world as a whole. Organizations have a huge responsibility and they can change the world, if they want to. “If we're not providing solutions for humanity, we're not going to be sustainably profitable, or grow sustainably over a long period of time.” This episode is brought to you by my friends at ServiceNow, a software company that makes the world of work, work better for people by delivering digital workflows that create great employee experiences, and unlock productivity. If you or your company is looking to transform old, manual ways of working into digital workflows, then you need ServiceNow. They are trusted by over 6,200 enterprises customers, Check them out here.

Mark 5:1-20 (NIV) So this week my wife took our girls to a really old cemetery in our town. Might seem like a strange place to take a walk but our oldest daughter was curious so they went for it. The one they went to had Confederate and Union Civil War soldiers buried there, and they ended up talking to the curator of the African American museum near the cemetery and hearing some pretty amazing stories. Cemeteries can be really interesting, but no one wants to stay there too long or especially overnight. . Today's passage happens to introduce us to someone who did, in fact, live “among the tombs,” a strong man tortured night and day by demons, more at home among the dead than the living. So far, as we've tried to place ourselves in the stories, we've probably imagined a lot of different emotional and mental responses to the situations and conversations we've heard. Today, as you imagine yourself in this story, you might be kind of freaked out. And that's ok. It's a bit of a terrifying scene. But as we'll see, Jesus is no more afraid of this man than he was of the storm. ----------REFLECT---------- 1. What did you see, feel, hear or experience as you pictured yourself in this scene? 2. As MArk wrote in chapter three, A strong man is being subdued… As in chapter 4, something that is out of control is being stilled... Bring to mind some of the things in your life that seem beyond your control… chaotic… destructive. 3. The image of the man sitting there at the end, clothed and in his right mind is, in an incredible picture of the Shalom- the wholeness that Jesus is bringing. Who in your life is in need of this kind of freedom? Maybe from addiction, mental illness, or even spiritual oppression? Take some time to intercede before Jesus on their behalf. ----------GO DEEPER---------- Bible Project: Mark Overview >> Bible Project: The Gospel >> Bible Project: Gospel of the Kingdom >> ----------CONNECT---------- Find an InterVarsity Chapter >> Start an InterVarsity Chapter >> Learn More >> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailyread/message

Scripture Reading: Mark 5:21-24, 35-43 “Don’t be afraid; just believe.” Mark 5:36 Jesus has controlled a storm, overpowered evil spirits, and healed a woman whose life was draining out of her. Now there is a greater test of Jesus’ power, because Jairus has learned that his daughter, who was sick, has actually died. But in the face of death Jesus says, “Don’t be afraid; just be­lieve.” Through gales and storms, dangers and demons, disease and now death, Jesus invites us to have faith in him. Going into Jairus’s home where the child was, Jesus says, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!” His authority, tough on wild seas and raging demons, is also as tender as a shepherd’s hand lifting a little lamb. The girl gets right up, and Jesus tells her parents to give her something to eat. Jesus is inviting us to trust in him. This does not mean we have a fully formed faith or even a fully informed faith. He is simply calling for an initial trust, a beginning of faith. After all, as far as the story goes, we are only in Mark 5, and Jesus has not yet died and risen from the grave to pay for our sins and give us new life. At this point he says, “Just believe.” Let’s start with that, and then keep on trusting. Let’s go with what Jesus is showing and telling us about him—and see where it leads. As Mark is sharing the story of Jesus, he is building his case—who can deny that Jesus is Lord? Jesus, help me with this one thing—to keep believing in your power over all things. Open my heart to know that even when things seem hopeless, you have the power to restore and make new. Amen.

What would happen if managers would stop treating their teams as employees, and instead started treating others and themselves as human beings? Mark LeBusque asked himself this question years ago, drew a plan and executed it. The results? As Mark told me: "Raf, magic happened". Results went through the roof, and I am not surprised at all. Today Mark is on the mission of helping teams bringing the best human version of themselves to work. Mark wrote two books: "Being Human" and "The Little Book Of Human", set up his consultancy business, launched a podcast "The Simply Practically Human" and speaks in stages across the globe. Tune in to see how can you, in a very practical way, be the best human version of yourself at work. Here are a few places where you can connect with Mark: Website: https://marklebusque.com/ Podcast: https://marklebusque.com/podcast/ Grab Mark's books: https://marklebusque.com/books/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklebusque/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marklebusque/ I appreciate your support. Every download and review means a lot to me and serves me as a fuel to keep on inviting more exciting guests on my show. Most of my episodes are streamed live via my LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and Patreon.

Even though Mark Monroe from Creative Real Estate Investing was only within a few hours of a new property in North Florida, he thought it’d be a great time to try virtual wholesaling. A fellow wholesaler who was coaching him through the deal suggested he just put a lockbox on the house and give the code out to potential tenants so that they could check the property out themselves.After a week of showing the property, the fifth couple to visit the house reported that the lockbox was gone and that someone was clearly living in the house. As Mark prepared to take legal actions against the squatter, Covid-19 shut down the courts. Without the law to back him up, Mark had to wait until the state would allow evictions again. And in the meantime, he had to keep paying the mortgage on the property.It seems like it should be easy to evict when a tenant doesn’t even have a lease to live in the house. But the squatter was a housing inspector for the county, and he had a pretty slick operation going on. Mark and I talk about his options for taking legal action now so that the guy never does it again.“Just pay the Realtor one month’s rent”, recommends Mark. It’s going to be worth it when you have a good deposit and a background check on record. Mark’s been in real estate in some form or another since ‘95, but this is a pretty fresh story for him. It’s proof that anyone can have a deal go bad. For more stories about real estate investors’ worst deals, text the word BAD to 313131.What's Inside:—Evicting a tenant that’s shot up the place and who chases away all over potential renters can be tough, but Mark has some creative advice.—Virtual wholesaling can be incredibly successful, but you’ll need more than a prayer and a lockbox.—Who you need to partner with to support your virtual wholesaling business, and why it’s worth the money.—Licensed mortgage brokers should review your tenant buyers to make sure they qualify.

Welcome to Episode 50! This one is a special episode for YOU! As Mark & Casey bring Season 1 to a close, they are looking back at all of their (and your) favorite moments from the first season! Covering all the topics you've come to love and hear about -- politics, television, film, food, cooking, theatre, books, and COVID-19-- The Boys are highlighting some of the best moments in the first season. Sure to make you laugh and get you thinking, this episode is for YOU! So pour some of your favorite port vintage and get ready for a very special episode of Painted Trash!Be sure to subscribe and/or follow for the start of Season 2 coming up in just a couple weeks! Don't miss it!=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Have a topic idea or story you recommend for Trash Talk, be sure to send it in to our email or through the "contact us" on our website.Follow us on:Instagram: instragram.com/paintedtrashpodTwitter: twitter.com/paintedtrashpodFacebook: facebookcom/paintedtrashpodcastDon't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!email: paintedtrashpodcast@gmail.comweb: www.paintedtrashpodcast.com

Mark is delighted to welcome Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl to the podcast today. Rabbi Buchdahl is the first woman to serve as the Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City in its 180-year history, and she is also the first Asian American to be ordained as cantor or rabbi in North America. Having been nationally recognized for her innovations in leading worship, which draw large crowds both in the congregation’s historic Main Sanctuary and via live stream and cable broadcast to viewers in more than 100 countries, Rabbi Buchdahl is, Mark believes, the great role model of what the future of institutional Reform Judaism can be. The passage she has chosen to discuss with Mark is Deuteronomy 29:9-11.   Rabbi Buchdahl begins by sharing her summary of the passage and its significance for her based upon the message of inclusion that she finds within it. She and Mark then explore the foundation of Jewish identity, the accessibility of the Torah and how to teach it, and the most important of the Jewish holidays. They also discuss the power of truly understanding the experience of the stranger, the Rabbi’s bowling alley analogy regarding parenting, and the collective redemption and order found in the Jewish faith. As is the tradition, the episode concludes with the lessons our guest has learned about humankind. As Mark notes, Rabbi Buchdahl is ‘leading American Jewry to a better, better place’, and this truth is brilliantly displayed here today as she reveals so many lessons from this relatively short but incredibly powerful passage for us all to learn and enjoy.   Episode Highlights:   ·   Rabbi Buchdahl’s summary of the passage and its significance to her ·   The message of inclusion within the passage ·   The foundation of the Jewish identity ·   The Torah’s accessibility for all ·   How to teach Torah ·   Rabbi Buchdahl’s advice about keeping holidays ·   Understanding being a stranger in a strange land ·   The Rabbi’s bowling alley analogy regarding parenting ·   Collective redemption and order ·   The lessons about humankind that Rabbi Buchdahl has learned    Quotes:   “I spent a lot of my Jewish life feeling like I wasn’t sure that I also was really standing in Sinai like everybody else.”   “Everyone brings what they have.”   “If you convert to Judaism, you were at Sinai also.”   “This sense of inclusion is very powerful.”   “This to me is a statement of who we are as a people.”   “If you want to commit to this covenant, you’re a part of our people.”   “This Torah is for you. It’s for you today.”   “Oftentimes, the adults learn through the children.”   “There is something very deep about how you own your identity and you own your knowledge when you pass it on.”   “If you actually carry that Jewish memory, like, as if it’s your memory, you cannot walk through the world in the same way.”   “We taste our tears.”   “We’re all born good and pure…there’s the promise that we can return to that original goodness.”   “There’s no way that you can emerge from that crucible, in a sense, without being a changed person if you take Yom Kippur seriously.”   “What you’re doing is what they’re going to learn.”   “Every person is infinitely more powerful than they think they are.”   “Every human has the capacity to change.”   “The power of one person.”     Deuteronomy 29:9-11 You stand this day, all of you, before the LORD your God—your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to water drawer— to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions; https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.29.9-11?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en     Links:   The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/   Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en   The Rabbi’s Husband Newsletter contact:   daniel@therabbishusband.com

Mark is delighted to welcome Mishy Harman, Co-Founder, Host and Executive Producer of ‘Israel Story’, to the podcast today. Essentially an Israeli version of ‘This American Life’, ‘Israel Story’ chronicles the story of Israelis, including Eli Beer of United Hatzalah, and has hundreds of thousands of listeners in over 190 countries around the world. Mishy is a Jerusalemite who has served in the IDF, graduated from Harvard, and received his Ph.D at the Hebrew University. He has chosen ‘one of the great passages of the Bible’, Genesis 7-8, to discuss with Mark today. Mishy begins by sharing his summary of the passage, its significance for him, and some examples of flood stories from other cultures. He and Mark then explore God’s reason for choosing Noah, the sources of this story, Noah’s righteousness and his response to God, and the notion of walking ahead of God rather than with Him. They also examine why God doesn’t destroy everyone in this story, and what would be put in the ark these days. Mishy draws the conversation to a close by sharing the lessons he has learned about humankind, along with examples of these lessons, and the ways that people can surprise us. As Mark states, this is an ‘awesome and eternal passage which continues to yield lessons every time anyone studies it’, and today’s episode offers a prime example of this fact. Episode Highlights: · Mishy’s summary of the passage and why it’s significant for him · Flood stories from other cultures · Why God picks Noah · The sources of the Noah story · Noah’s righteousness and his response to God · Walking ahead of God · Why God doesn’t destroy everybody and start over · What would we put in Noah’s ark today? · The lessons that Mishy has learned about humankind · Examples which illustrate these lessons · Being surprised by people Quotes: “In many ways, the ark is a Voyager.” “It’s kind of a collective reward, really. They, and we as an extension, are reaping the benefits of Noah being righteous.” “God gave us the gift of creation and of re-creation, but that gift is in words, and Noah never uses them.” “He’s waiting for Noah to, sort of, pushback, and then nothing happens?” “It is so hard to be a good person in a bad culture.” “He never inspires anybody.” “God’s waiting for an argument that never comes.” “There’s something, sort of, I think, similarly beautiful about that kind of hopefulness that comes out of this mass destruction.” “God loves diversity, properly understood.” “God said He won’t destroy the world again, but He doesn’t say ‘You won’t’. It’s an ominous passage, particularly for the atomic age.” “We have indeed subjugated the entire planet to our purposes, and that is leading us in very scary and disastrous directions.” “I’ve learned how different we all are really fundamentally, and…how similar we all are.” “What I’ve learned…is…how rarely people actually conform to these stereotypes that we apply to them.” “By stripping the visual element and just hearing a voice, it allows you to actually listen to what people are saying, and not have it tainted by your stereotypes.”   https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.7.1-8.22?lang=en&aliyot=0  Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage:  http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter:  https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en The Rabbi’s Husband Newsletter contact: daniel@therabbishusband.com

After their car troubles, Victoria and Abel have to make the decision to spend more time in Lugo than planned, seeing symbolic sites, like the Muralla Romana and La Cárcel Antigua - an ancient prison. They round off their visit by enjoying some pulpo a la gallega (Galician octopus). As Mark and Anabel discuss the language used in this week's diary entry, listen out for the versatile verb quedar, and an explanation about using irse or ir de tapeo.Travel Diaries will be published in one season of ten episodes weekly from 27th August. If you’d like to access lesson notes and a video version which features pauses after each sentence to allow you to practise your pronunciation, check out the full course on the Coffee Break Academy.At Coffee Break Spanish we provide content for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners, along with regular mini lessons on social media. Visit coffeebreakspanish.com for all the information you need to build your confidence in Spanish, whatever your level. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Mark is delighted to welcome Harry Hargrave, the Chief Executive Officer for the Museum of the Bible, to the podcast. After spending over 45 years in finance, marketing and business operations, Harry found the site, obtained DC approvals and oversaw the planning and development process for this incredible Museum which is 430,000 square feet of rare and fascinating artifacts spanning 4,000 years of history. It is among the most technologically advanced and engaging museums in the world offering visitors an immersive and personalized experience with the Bible and its ongoing impact on the world around us. Harry is also the chairman of the Miracle of Nazareth International Foundation, chairman of the Christian Workers Foundation, and a founding elder of Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas. The passage he has chosen to discuss is Psalms 19. Harry begins by sharing his summary of the passage, and its meaning for both himself and the Museum. He then describes how the Museum came to be created, the impact it has upon visitors, and its continued operation throughout the current pandemic. The artifacts, their ongoing discovery, and the process of establishing their provenance is discussed as well as the Museum’s extensive American Heritage section. Harry concludes the episode, as all guests do, with the lessons he has learned about humanity. As Mark notes, the work that Harry does through this remarkable Museum is “opening the Bible and opening the hearts of the Bible by making it so interesting and so accessible and so fun” - a noble achievement. Episode Highlights: · Harry’s summary of his selected passage and why it’s meaningful to him · The Museum of the Bible and why this passage is important it · How the Museum came to be created and its purpose · What surprises Harry about people’s responses at the Museum · How it is staying open during the current pandemic · Bible artifacts and their ongoing discovery · What Harry observes in people being introduced to the Bible · How the Museum acquires artifacts and establishes their provenance · The Museum’s American Heritage section · The lessons that Harry has learned about mankind Quotes: “That’s a beautiful passage for people of all faiths, but especially the Jewish and Christian faith.” “It’s the gift that keeps giving.” “Would you come be a tour guide for us?” “It’s the book that keeps talking to you.” “It’s our job to show them the Bible, and encourage them to read the Bible, and give them reasons for that.” “Archeological discoveries are still finding the Bible to be true and fulfilling the promises that God made to all of us.” “It makes the Bible come alive when you go to Israel and spend one or two weeks there.” “We want to tell the stories of how people see the value of the Bible throughout our world.” “It’s an important part of the nation’s history and, of course, an entire subculture of the United States, and the world now.” “What I see in mankind is a great ability to make mistakes, and a great ability to forgive themselves and one another.” “It’s truly the Living Word…it seeks out your soul and just pierces you.” Psalms 19 - https://www.sefaria.org/Psalms.19.1-15?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en

Mark is delighted to welcome Michael Medved, a legend in the world of American thought and political discourse, to the podcast today. Starting his public life as a left-liberal political organizer, Michael has gone on to become a historian, movie critic, nationally-broadcast talk radio host, podcaster, and best-selling author. One of his books, What Really Happened to the Class of ’65?, is actually the first book Mark remembers seeing around his house as a child. The passage that Michael has chosen to discuss today is Exodus 33:18-23. Michael begins this fascinating conversation with the story behind President Trump’s choice of his favorite Bible verse, and follows with his summary of today’s selected verse and its meaning for him. He and Mark then engage in an extensive analysis of the notion of ‘God passing by’ highlighted by this verse, including a number of examples where God is involved not only in the history of America and Israel, but also in our daily lives. They also discuss the value of seeing the world with ‘radical and perpetual amazement’ before Michael shares the lessons he has learned about humankind, his perspective on what is wrong in America right now, and the importance of acknowledging gratitude. As Mark notes, the Torah’s ‘truths keep coming’, and today they are highlighted through Michael’s gift for effortlessly bringing history to life, rendering this episode yet another clear demonstration of the wisdom of this seminal text and its profound impact upon both historical and present day issues. Episode Highlights: · President Trump’s favorite Bible verse · Michael’s summary of the verse and why it’s meaningful for him · How this verse relates to Israel’s recent peace agreements · God passing by · Good advice for statesmen · Stories of God’s involvement in the history of America · Opening up to the certainty that God is here · The story of Michael meeting his wife · ‘Radical and perpetual amazement’ · The lessons Michael has learned about humankind · Michael’s perspective on what is so wrong in America right now · Acknowledging gratitude Quotes: “I think it’s extremely meaningful and relevant for anybody who writes history or cares about history or current events, or trying to discern what God is trying to do in the world.” “I think that there are lots of us who, at different times of life, want to see God’s face.” “You will know My presence after I am done with that act. During it, you’re not going to see it. “It is the job of the statesman to listen for God’s footsteps in history, and when he hears them to grab His coattails and hang on.” “We don’t really think about God in Heaven.” “We’re an imperfect nation and we’re an instrument to God because He needs an instrument, and what’s He going to do, choose Belgium?” “The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” “Washington was actually the indispensable man.” “And today, with a country of 330 million instead of 2.8 million, the best we can do is Trump and Biden?” “He had just conquered fear, because his response after this attempt on his life was so remarkable.” “America is not an accident.” “I got engaged in 9 weeks – absolutely, you just know.” “For people who doubt that God is involved in the history of America and the history of Israel, it seems to me that many of those people probably do see God’s hand, at least, in their own marriages.” “These are all American daily miracles.” “Nobody achieves anything alone.” “A great deal depends upon maintaining the right and the positive attitude…especially when trials come, and they come to all of us.” “You should acknowledge the existence of gratitude before you acknowledge the existence of yourself.” Exodus 33:18-23 - https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.33.18-23?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en

Mark is delighted to welcome the President and CEO of the Hadar Institute, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, to today’s episode. In addition to his work with this great institution of adult jewish learning in the world, Elie has also been named one of the top fifty Jewish leaders by The Forward, and one of Newsweek's top fifty rabbis. When asked to guest on the podcast to discuss prayer, the topic of his upcoming book, Elie chose Genesis 15:1-8 to discuss with Mark. He begins the conversation by summarizing the passage, and sharing why it is meaningful for him. He and Mark then explore the complexities of Abraham’s relationship with God, the promises that God made to Abraham, and the lessons to be learned from the reference to stars in the passage as well as Abraham’s struggle with faith. Elie then explains what this passage has to do with prayer, offers his advice to those who, like Mark, are unable to connect to God through prayer, and reviews Judaism’s emphasis on the communal aspect of prayer. Elie concludes the episode by offering a glimpse into his upcoming book, as well as the lessons he has learned about mankind. As Mark notes, he always learns so much from his conversations with Elie, particularly about the multiple meanings that can come from the same text, and today is your opportunity to do the same during this fascinating and informative examination of this highly important biblical passage. Episode Highlights: Elie’s summary of the passage and why it is meaningful to him The complexities of Abraham’s relationship with God in this passage God’s promises to Abraham Lessons to be learned from the reference to stars in the passage and from Abraham’s struggle with faith What this passage has to do with prayer Elie’s advice to those who can’t connect with God through prayer Judaism’s emphasis on the communal aspect of prayer Elie’s new book The lessons he has learned about mankind Quotes: “It’s a different window into Abraham’s relationship with God that’s actually much more complex than blind faith.” “It’s not that you’re just going to have one child, you’re going to have so many children, it’s going to be as numerous as the stars in the sky.” “There can be many truths emanating from the same passage.” “If you want to find your way in the darkness, you need to use the stars.” “There’s some connection between stars and angels, you know, the heavenly beings that you see when you look up in the sky.” “God’s sort of in league with us, providing us some sort of comfort and protection that allows us to express our doubts.” “I’ve never had a meaningful prayer experience in my life…it’s just never done anything for me, and I’m blaming myself.” “There’s an artistry to the prayer book itself…it’s really a book of poetry.” “A lot of prayer is about trying to connect to a God who feels distant.” “There’s sort of a communal responsibility that gets heightened when you are with other people in a prayer setting.” “If you will it, it is no dream.” “Although people present often as cynical, I think, underneath, people are really yearning for deep connection.” “The secret of the Torah is not that you can begin, but that you can begin again.” Genesis 15:1-8 - https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.15.1-8?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en

Join Karin and her family in Episode 6 of the Coffee Break German Travel Diaries as they spend a picturesque day in Garmisch-Partenkirchenm, one of the most popular German skiing areas. Although skiing isn't on the cards for the family, they still have a fantastic, fun-filled day and even make some new friends. As Mark and Andrea discuss Karin's travel diary entry, we hear examples of the pluperfect tense as well as some interesting expressions and vocabulary including the word hetzen and the demonstrative pronoun diejenige. Travel Diaries will be published in one season of ten episodes weekly from 28th August. If you’d like to access lesson notes and a video version which features pauses after each sentence to allow you to practise your pronunciation, check out the full course on the Coffee Break Academy.At Coffee Break German we provide content for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners, along with regular mini lessons on social media. Visit coffeebreakgerman.com for all the information you need to build your confidence in German, whatever your level. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mark Watson is a New Zealand-based photographer and author specializing in landscape, adventure and travel photography. Mark spent four years cycling from Deadhorse, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina, a distance of 28,000 miles (46k km) linking together bikepacking routes and researching his own way into the culturally diverse towns and environments of the Americas.  Inside the Episode (6:00): We get the broad scope of Mark’s bike ride before breaking down the details of his trip.  (9:20): Mark gives us some back story on his travel experiences and how this trip from Alaska to Patagonia came to fruition.  (13:15): Make breaks down how he prepared for such an extensive trip, including how he saved and the jobs he had on the road to continue making a bit of extra cash.  (23:00): Mark made the wise choice to avoid the Darien Gap, a tough area of travelers in the Panama Jungle. Instead, he took the opportunity to bike through rural Cuba - experiencing the island nation beyond the touristy infrastructure and meeting people who rarely see outsiders take the opportunity to visit them.  (29:51): As Mark made his way through rural Columbia, his partner, Hannah had her phone swiped right off her bike handlebars.  (32:05): “People are generally good” - One of Mark’s main takeaways from his 28,000 mile cycling trip through the American continents. He met tons of people along the way from varying cultures, races, economic classes, and occupations. This was heartwarming, and something we do not get tired of hearing from our guests. (36:40): The journey became the destination. As Mark and Hannah made their way across the Americas it became obvious that seeing and experiencing the people and environments around them was prioritized over getting from Alaska to Patagonia in a set amount of time.  (38:05): Like the rest of the world, COVID-19 brought Mark’s journey to a stand still. When Mark got word on how coronavirus was ravaging Italy, he was in Chile, incredibly close to finishing his route.  (46:50): Check this out. Have you ever seen the night sky light up like this? When you’re alone in the middle of the Colombian wilderness, this is your nightlight.  (49:45): The day to day of a man on a 28,000 mile cycling journey across two continents is all about keeping it simple and light. From carrying only a sliver of soap to cutting the ends of his toothbrush to conserve weight and space, life on a bicycle has to be creative. Carry what you need, forget what you don't, and just look ahead.  (55:00): What about water? Vital to Mark completing his trip, he obviously had to map out and know where each potential water source was located in close proximity to his route. Being a crucial consideration, Mark mapped out each potential water source on the route. His rule of thumb: Carry enough water to make it beyond the next known water source….take notes.  (1:06:00): Mark discusses future trips, including how he’d like to retrace the migration of ancient man. From Africa, into Eurasia and into the Americas.  (1:09:20): Listen to Mark as he describes this environment in Northern Argentina. Surrounded by volcanoes and salt flats, calm in the mornings and hostile winds in the afternoon. Truly ‘no mans land’. A place few will ever experience, partly because they don't even know it exists. (1:17:00) Rapid Fire Question Round! Reach Out To Our Guest www.highlux.co.nz (http://www.highlux.co.nz/) (Main site) www.highlux.co.nz/blog (http://www.highlux.co.nz/blog)  (blog) www.highlux.co.nz/alaska-to-argentina (http://www.highlux.co.nz/alaska-to-argentina) (The Americas bike journey) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beinghana/ (https://www.instagram.com/beinghana/) 20 minute film: 'Inca Roads' https://www.highlux.co.nz/2019/06/inca-roads-from-the-andes-to-the-amazon-video/ (https://www.highlux.co.nz/2019/06/inca-roads-from-the-andes-to-the-amazon-video/)... Support this podcast

Mark Hyman, MD, is head of strategy for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and board president for the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is also the bestselling author of a number of books, including Eat Fat, Get Thin. This is a very important and equally sobering book. As Mark says: "If we were to identify one big lever to pull to improve global health, create economic abundance, reduce social injustice and mental illness, restore environmental health, and reverse climate change, it would be transforming our entire food system. That is the most important work of our time—work that must begin now.” In the Note we take a quick look at the dysfunction of the food system and how to fix it while talking about the #1 thing YOU can do TODAY to address it. We also chat about the fact that your food label may be lying to you, the ENORMOUS amount of money the junk food industry spends on junk science (think: $12 BILLION) and the social justice issues of food.

In our last +1 I mentioned the fact that I recently read Mark Hyman’s new book Food Fix.    It’s a powerful look at the dysfunction of our food system and “How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time.”   As Mark says: “If we were to identify one big lever to pull to improve global health, create economic abundance, reduce social injustice and mental illness, restore environmental health, and reverse climate change, it would be transforming our entire food system. That is the most important work of our time - work that must begin now.”   It’s a sobering, mind-exploding, more-than-a-little enraging, yet ultimately hopeful look at what’s broken and how we can fix it. Check out the Notes for more.   Today I want to focus on just one super-small aspect of our overall food system: your food label.   If you look closely, you’ll see that it might be lying to you.   In a chapter called “The FDA Is Not Doing Its Job to Protect Us” in Part II on “The Dirty Politics of Food,” Mark tells us: “Companies are required to list ingredients in the order of their pre-dominance. But that doesn’t tell you how much is in the package. If sugar is the second ingredient listed on a package, that doesn’t tell you if it makes up 30 percent of the food or 5 percent.   Have you ever picked up a jar of strawberry jam at the supermarket and looked at its ingredient list? A jar of Smucker’s strawberry jam lists strawberries as the first ingredient, and then the second, third, and fourth ingredients are as follows: high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, and sugar. This tactic is very common. The reason companies often use several sweeteners in one product is so they don’t have to list ‘sugar’ as the first ingredient. As [Jerold] Mande[, a nutrition expert who worked on food labels at the FDA and USDA,] explained, ‘What we know from some investigations is that companies often use five different sugars in their products so that they don’t show up high on the list.’”   Let’s think about that for a moment.   Of course, we have food labels so we can get a sense of what’s actually in our food. And, naturally, the ingredients are listed in the order of their pre-dominance.   Now...    Can you imagine being in the strategic discussion at Smucker’s (and countless other Big Food companies) coming up with the idea to use THREE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUGAR so that “Strawberries” could remain at the top of the ingredient list so an unsuspecting customer (you? me? your mom? my mom? your brother? my brother?) will pick it up, take a quick glance and then say, “Strawberries. Awesome. Must be healthy!”?   Seriously.   Picture the scene.    Walk into the conference room. Pull up a chair.   Boss: “Ok, guys. New label laws say we need to put the largest ingredient in our jar of jam at the very top of the list.”   Pause.   “Now… We ALL know we can’t have ‘sugar’ at the top. It’s gotta be strawberries. Right?!”   Everyone nods. (lol)   “I mean, if we put SUGAR at the top for Heaven’s sakes, people might catch on to the fact that this is NOT a health food and we can’t have THAT happen! Right?”   Everyone nods again. (lol)   “So… I came up with a brilliant idea."   Leans in…   “What we need to do is throw in a few different versions of sugar to keep it just as unhealthy but LOOK healthy with Strawberries right at the top of the ol’ ingredient list.”   “Here’s the game plan: Head on over to this Optimize +1 for all the different names for cancer candy, er, I mean sugar, pick out a few of those and LET’S GO!! We got some jam to sell folks and there’s NO WAY we want to put the health of our customers first and prioritize their well-being over our profits.”   I wish that was further from what happened but…   My God.   Who thought it was a virtuous idea to manipulate the label like that rather than being honest about your product and/or Optimizing it so it ACTUALLY WAS healthier?   The book is packed with countless examples of how various stakeholders in our food system are manipulating their products and public policy without regards to our health.    I don’t get easily enraged, but it’s enraging.   So...    Today’s +1.    I ask:    Can you (and should you) trust a company that does that?    Can you (and should you) support a company that does that by buying their products?    I don’t think so.    You?   If you feel so inspired, go check out your pantry and take a glance at your food labels.    And, let’s remember that we vote for the world we want to create with every dollar we spend.   Let’s do so Wisely TODAY.

On this week's show, the guys discuss PETA's new tofu propaganda campaign, usher in the return of Not So Sharp Moments, and learn that mocking liberal hunters is a good thing. Up next is an interview with Mark Carter. He’s a native of Ten Sleep, Wyoming, the son of a salt of the earth rancher, and a world-class snowboarder. Mark is a grab life by the balls type of guy that has lived a life of adventure most of us only dream about. He’s also a convicted poacher and a felon. In a time of cancel culture, his story is an important look at honesty, redemption, and guilt. As Mark said, “I got nothing to hide.” He lays it all out there. Enjoy.    Connect with Ben and MeatEater Ben on Instagram MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop The Hunting Collective Merch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.